Africa Movies

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood...

This film presents a harsh critique of the Koranic teaching through the tragic story of a small talibé, student of a beggar.

At a festival, a chorus of women sing and dance as two stories unfold. In a village, a young women with a jealous husband gives him something to be...

Back home in Bujumbura with a Parisian diploma in his pocket and expecting to walk into a civil service job, Gito finds himself both unemployed and...

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the...

Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local...

A beautiful, intelligent and flirtatious young girl, Yonta, is secretly in love with a friend of her parents, Vicente, a hero of the war of...

On their wedding night, a couple rescue a baby from a garbage bin only to adopt it some years later.

Dr. Bluto sails off to Darkest Africa for exploration. Popeye, who stayed behind, hears a radio report that Bluto is lost and sets sail - on a raft -...

A character-driven heartfelt story of resilience and the impact of education. The film follows Angel, Moses and Nina from the slums of Kampala,...

Best friends Majolie and Chouchou are two beautiful young women trying to get ahead in a near-future Cameroon. After accidentally killing a powerful...

In 1920, a young African-American woman sets off to Africa to find a tree that promises eternal life.

Directed by Mustapha Kateb.

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the waterholes.

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. These war images taken in the...

This uneven and uninspired documentary of Africa is a collection from various stock footage. Female dancers in mod clothes dance on the Eiffel Tower...

Based on a traditional African tale. A king has the habit whilst walking in disguise on the streets of his kingdom to listen to the wishes of his own...

Shot in the back and left for dead, Jack, former top dog of a mercenary unit, returns to his old base in Odessa to right past wrongs and reunite with...