Descolonización africana y conflictos posteriores

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1. Africa: Blood and Guts (1966)

R | 122 min | Documentary, Horror

The cruel acts of animal poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking place on the African continent.

Directors: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Stars: Sergio Rossi, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere

Votes: 1,877

2. Lumumba (2000)

Not Rated | 115 min | Biography, Drama, History

78 Metascore

The true story of controversial leader of independent Congo Patrice Lumumba.

Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto

Votes: 2,083 | Gross: $0.68M

3. Dark of the Sun (1968)

Approved | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.

Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Peter Carsten, Jim Brown

Votes: 3,540

4. The Wild Geese (1978)

R | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A British banker hires a group of British mercenaries to rescue a deposed African President from the hands of a corrupt African dictator.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Krüger

Votes: 14,183

5. Guns at Batasi (1964)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, History, War

Anachronistic strict Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough), on a remote colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat, must use his experience to defend those in his care.

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton

Votes: 1,958

6. Outside the Law (2010)

R | 138 min | Crime, Drama, War

59 Metascore

A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.

Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Chafia Boudraa

Votes: 4,120

7. Lost Command (1966)

Approved | 129 min | Action, Drama, War

French Army Colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers in battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina and against Algerian guerrilla during the Algerian War.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michèle Morgan

Votes: 2,278

8. The Battle of Algiers (1966)

Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, War

96 Metascore

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash

Votes: 65,700 | Gross: $0.06M

9. The Battle of Algiers, a Film Within History (2017)

117 min | Documentary

The Battle of Algiers is one of the most celebrated films of all time. Made in 1966, it documented Algeria's war for independence. Returning to the roots of the production and the ... See full summary »

Director: Malek Bensmaïl | Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Gillo Pontecorvo, Yacef Saadi

Votes: 35

11. Black Jesus (1968)

GP | 89 min | Drama

Rebel Maurice Lalubi is arrested by the military on trumped up charges and tortured, which turns him into a martyr. Inspired by the final days of the first democratic Congolese leader, Patrice Lumumba.

Director: Valerio Zurlini | Stars: Woody Strode, Franco Citti, Jean Servais, Pier Paolo Capponi

Votes: 324 | Gross: $0.33M

12. Tuareg: The Desert Warrior (1984)

PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Action

In a desolate section of the Sahara once ruled by the French, two thirsty men stumble into the camp of a Tuareg warrior where they're given water and shelter. Soldiers from the new Arab ... See full summary »

Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Mark Harmon, Luis Prendes, Ritza Brown, Paolo Malco

Votes: 545

13. The Professional (1981)

Not Rated | 108 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Victim of a plot which has resulted in his imprisonment in a Central African jail for two years, a French secret agent arrives in Paris to settle accounts.

Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Desailly, Cyrielle Clair, Marie-Christine Descouard

Votes: 17,278

14. Exilio en Africa (2019)

70 min | Documentary

This documentary tells the story of several Argentine exiles who worked as aid workers in Mozambique, a recently independent former Portuguese colony mired in a terrible civil war.

Directors: Ernesto Aguilar, Marcela Suppicich

15. Palm Trees in the Snow (2015)

163 min | Drama, Romance

After the death of her father, a young Spanish woman discovers a partial letter. As she searches for the answers, she embarks on a journey that takes her back to Africa, where she unfolds the secrets of her family.

Director: Fernando González Molina | Stars: Mario Casas, Adriana Ugarte, Macarena García, Alain Hernández

Votes: 12,498

16. Lejos de África (1996)

115 min | Drama

The friendship of Susana (white Spanish girl) and Rita (black native) in the Spanish colony of African guinea. The adventures of the girls and the evolution of the political situation through the eyes of the innocence.

Director: Cecilia Bartolomé | Stars: Alicia Bogo, Xabier Elorriaga, Isabel Mestres, Carlos Cruz

Votes: 54

17. Yvone Kane (2014)

117 min | Drama

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist and guerrilla fighter. There, she ... See full summary »

Director: Margarida Cardoso | Stars: Irene Ravache, Beatriz Batarda, Gonçalo Waddington, Mina Andala

Votes: 94

18. The Murmuring Coast (2004)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama

Based on the novel by Lidia Jorge.

Director: Margarida Cardoso | Stars: Beatriz Batarda, Filipe Duarte, Monica Calle, Adriano Luz

Votes: 312

20. Echoes From a Somber Empire (1990)

91 min | Documentary

Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Michael Goldsmith, Werner Herzog, Augustine Assemat, David Dacko

Votes: 728

21. Le complot (1973)

120 min | Action, Drama, History

By the early 1960s, the OAS is desperate to stop de Gaulle's freeing of Algeria. A small group, mostly from the military, steal weapons and rob a bank to prepare for a raid on Tulle prison ... See full summary »

Director: René Gainville | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Michel Duchaussoy, Raymond Pellegrin, Jean Rochefort

Votes: 144

22. L'insoumis (1964)

115 min | Drama, Thriller

1961. Luxemburger Thomas Vlassenroot deserted the French Foreign Legion during the Algiers Putsch. His lieutenant, Fraser, initiated the desertion for the two of them, Fraser believing he ... See full summary »

Director: Alain Cavalier | Stars: Alain Delon, Lea Massari, Georges Géret, Maurice Garrel

Votes: 986

23. Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)

R | 113 min | Action, Biography, Crime

71 Metascore

The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life before the early 1970s and the events that led to him being declared Public Enemy No. 1 in France.

Director: Jean-François Richet | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche

Votes: 35,300 | Gross: $0.55M

24. Wild Reeds (1994)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama

83 Metascore

The fates of two partners are divided.

Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau, Frédéric Gorny

Votes: 6,647 | Gross: $0.92M

25. Operation Leopard (1980)

96 min | Adventure, Drama, War

In 1978, a group of heavily armed rebels from Katanga attacked the mining town of Kolwezi in Zaire and started killing the civilians among whom many Europeans. France sent the legion to evacuate the civilian population.

Director: Raoul Coutard | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Jacques Perrin, Laurent Malet, Pierre Vaneck

Votes: 399

26. Tabataba (1988)

76 min | Drama

Tabataba tells the story of a small Malagasy village during the independence uprising which took place in 1947 in the south of the country. For several months, part of the Malagasy ... See full summary »

Director: Raymond Rajaonarivelo | Stars: Philippe Nahoun, François Botozandry, Lucien Dadakisy, Soatody

Votes: 57

27. Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)

R | 111 min | Drama, Romance

51 Metascore

Sisters Olanna and Kainene return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. As civil war breaks out, political events loom larger than their differences as they join the fight to establish an independent republic.

Director: Biyi Bandele | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandiwe Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Joseph Mawle

Votes: 2,150 | Gross: $0.05M

28. October 1 (2014)

PG-13 | 148 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

As Nigeria prepares for independence from the British in 1960, a seasoned police detective rushes to find the serial killer slaughtering its native young women.

Director: Kunle Afolayan | Stars: Sadiq Daba, Kayode Olaiya, Ademola Adedoyin, David Bailie

Votes: 531

29. BIAFRA - Forgotten Mission (2018)

50 min | Documentary

Fifty years ago, Nigeria was embroiled in a brutal civil war. Irish missionaries defied a cynical international cartel to save millions from starvation, becoming international media celebrities in the process.

Director: Irina Maldea

Votes: 8

30. Jesus Christ Airlines (2001 TV Movie)

58 min | Documentary, History, War

During the Biafra war in Nigeria 1967-70, Joint Church Aid (JCA) or "Jesus Christ Airlines" provided an air-bridge to aid the starving people of Biafra. This documentary tells the story behind this unique and daring relief operation.

Director: Lasse Jensen | Star: Frederick Forsyth

Votes: 10

31. The Last King of Scotland (2006)

R | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History

74 Metascore

Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.

Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: James McAvoy, Forest Whitaker, Gillian Anderson, Kerry Washington

Votes: 196,088 | Gross: $17.61M

32. Hotel Rwanda (2004)

PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History

79 Metascore

Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.

Director: Terry George | Stars: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Xolani Mali

Votes: 372,366 | Gross: $23.53M

33. Tears of the Sun (2003)

R | 121 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

48 Metascore

A Special-Ops commander leads his team into the Nigerian jungle in order to rescue a doctor who will only join them if they agree to save 70 refugees too.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Bruce Willis, Cole Hauser, Monica Bellucci, Eamonn Walker

Votes: 130,593 | Gross: $43.73M

34. Shooting Dogs (2005)

R | 115 min | Drama, History, War

71 Metascore

A Catholic Priest and an English teacher get stranded in a school in Kigali during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz, Louis Mahoney

Votes: 11,971

35. Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)

R | 112 min | Drama, History, War

57 Metascore

The story of General Romeo Dallaire's frustrated efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.

Directors: Jennifer Capraru, Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Roy Dupuis, Owen Sejake, James Gallanders, Michel Ange Nzojibwami

Votes: 3,699

36. Lord of War (2005)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama

62 Metascore

An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an INTERPOL Agent.

Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan

Votes: 337,068 | Gross: $24.15M

37. The Dogs of War (1980)

R | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

56 Metascore

Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.

Director: John Irvin | Stars: Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely, Hugh Millais

Votes: 9,441

38. Amin: The Rise and Fall (1981)

R | 91 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.

Director: Sharad Patel | Stars: Joseph Olita, Thomas Baptiste, Leonard Trolley, Geoffrey Keen

Votes: 496

39. General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974)

Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary

A documentary on the military dictator of Africa's Uganda.

Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Golda Meir

Votes: 2,019

40. Mobutu, roi du Zaïre (1999)

135 min | Documentary

Thiery Michel takes an in-depth look at the reign of Mobutu Sese Seko. A man of "modest roots" who had a Catholic upbringing, Mobutu was sent to the army by his father for insubordination. ... See full summary »

Director: Thierry Michel | Stars: Raymond Barre, Jacques Chirac, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Mobutu Sese Seko

Votes: 216

41. When We Were Kings (1996)

PG | 88 min | Documentary, Sport

83 Metascore

Boxing documentary on the 1974 world heavyweight championship bout between defending champion, George Foreman, and the underdog challenger, Muhammad Ali.

Director: Leon Gast | Stars: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown

Votes: 19,139 | Gross: $2.79M

42. Victory at Entebbe (1976 TV Movie)

Unrated | 119 min | Action, Drama, History

In 1976, terrorists hijack an Air France airplane, and divert it to Uganda, where they demand to exchange their hostages for fellow terrorists held in Israeli jails.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Helmut Berger, Linda Blair, Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss

Votes: 1,274

43. The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)

R | 150 min | Action, Biography, Crime

76 Metascore

A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.

Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz

Votes: 40,137 | Gross: $0.48M

Final del secuestro del vuelo 181 de Lufthansa por la RAF y el FLP con la intervención de un comando de la RFA en Mogadiscio.

44. Black Hawk Down (2001)

R | 144 min | Action, Drama, History

74 Metascore

The story of 160 elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily armed Somalis.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana

Votes: 423,803 | Gross: $108.64M

45. Mogadischu (2008 TV Movie)

90 min | Crime, Drama

In 1977, skyjackers abduct Lufthansa Flight 181, subsequently involving Germany's special operations unit GSG 9 to free all the hostages.

Director: Roland Suso Richter | Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Nadja Uhl, Saïd Taghmaoui, Herbert Knaup

Votes: 1,309

46. Live and Become (2005)

Unrated | 140 min | Drama

A Christian boy escapes to Israel from famine-stricken Ethiopia by pretending to be Jewish.

Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Moshe Agazai, Moshe Abebe

Votes: 6,312

47. Cry Freedom (1987)

PG | 157 min | Biography, Drama, History

59 Metascore

South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the Black anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko.

Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline, Josette Simon, Wabei Siyolwe

Votes: 14,468 | Gross: $5.90M

48. Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

R | 114 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

70 Metascore

Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit

Votes: 188,928 | Gross: $147.25M

49. Shepherds and Butchers (2016)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

42 Metascore

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.

Director: Oliver Schmitz | Stars: Steve Coogan, Andrea Riseborough, Garion Dowds, Eduan van Jaarsveldt

Votes: 3,137

50. Escape from Pretoria (2020)

PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Mystery

56 Metascore

Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.

Director: Francis Annan | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter

Votes: 43,599

51. Somalia: The Forgotten Story (2016)

46 min | Documentary

The story of Somalia's decline from stability to chaos revealing the problems facing its people at home and abroad.

Directors: Mohamed Dawood, Omar Elkholy | Stars: Abukar Awale, Hussein Dualeh, Mohamed Hashi Elmi, Mary Harper

Votes: 15

52. Peacekeeper (2014)

11 min | Short, Drama, War

A former Australian Peacekeeper reflects on his time served in Africa during peacekeeping operations.

Director: Joshua Hoareau | Stars: Thomas Banda, Tatiana Barrie, Addam Bramich, Lliam Murphy

Votes: 20

53. Peacekeepers

Action, Drama, War | Announced

Australian soldier Aaron Jacobs leaves the SASR to join U.N peacekeeping forces in Africa only to find that life as a peacekeeper and a soldier are two sides to the same coin.

Director: Joshua Hoareau | Stars: James Schaw, Franco Flammia, Lliam Murphy, Ben Steel

54. Eye in the Sky (2015)

R | 102 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

73 Metascore

Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.

Director: Gavin Hood | Stars: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi

Votes: 91,518 | Gross: $18.70M

55. Ilaria Alpi - Il più crudele dei giorni (2003)

120 min | Drama, History

Ilaria Alpi, a young, Italian war-corespondent, was on a dangerous mission in Somalia. While she covered the civil war, she also discovered a big and secret international environmental ... See full summary »

Director: Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani | Stars: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Rade Serbedzija, Giacinto Ferro, Angelo Infanti

Votes: 241

56. The Constant Gardener (2005)

R | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

82 Metascore

A widower's transcontinental quest to find answers about his wife's death leads him to explosive secrets.

Director: Fernando Meirelles | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Hubert Koundé

Votes: 148,506 | Gross: $33.58M

57. Sons of Africa (2014)

Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography

Uganda's Idi Amin and Tanzania's Julius Nyerere were bitter enemies who went to war in 1978. Today, the dictator Amin is reviled as the 'Butcher of Uganda', while the socialist Nyerere is ... See full summary »

Director: James Becket | Stars: Jaffar Amin, James Becket, Madaraka Nyerere

Votes: 7

58. Angola the war (2017 Video)

120 min | Documentary, History

A faraway war - A clash of ideologies - And some of the biggest battles fought on African soil since World War Two.

Director: Peter Lamberti | Stars: Anton Beukman, Pik Botha, Jan Breytenbach, Fidel Castro

Votes: 24

59. Another Day of Life (2018)

85 min | Animation, Biography

78 Metascore

A gripping story of a three-month-long journey that renowned Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski took across Angola, ravaged by a war in which the front lines shifted like a kaleidoscope, from one day to the next.

Directors: Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow | Stars: Artur Queiroz, Luis Alberto Ferreira, Carlota Machado, Joaquim António Lopes Farrusco

Votes: 2,744

60. O Herói (2004)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, War

A 20-year veteran of the Angolan civil war returns to the capital city of Luanda where he faces the challenges of assimilation and survival.

Director: Zézé Gamboa | Stars: Makena Diop, Milton 'Santo' Coelho, Maria Ceiça, Patrícia Bull

Votes: 166

64. Finding Sally (2020)

78 min | Documentary

A personal investigation into the mysterious life of the director's Aunt Sally, an Ethiopian aristocrat-turned-communist-rebel who disappeared after the revolution that lead to the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie.

Director: Tamara Mariam Dawit | Stars: Tsehai Tesfamichael, Abrehet Asefa, Tamara Mariam Dawit, Kibre Dawit

Votes: 83

65. Twilight Revelations: Episodes in the Life & Times of Emperor Haile Selassie (2009)

58 min | Documentary

Explores key moments, both public and private, in the life and reign of the Emperor.

Director: Yemane I. Demissie

Votes: 7

66. Footsteps of the Emperor (1999 TV Movie)

50 min | Documentary

This documentary explores the life and times of former Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I and the period he spent living in the city of Bath in England, during the Italian invasion of his ... See full summary »

Director: Shawn Naphtali Sobers | Star: Benjamin Zephaniah

67. Haile Selassie I: Apogeo y Ocaso del León de Judá (2007 Video)

23 min | Short, Biography, Drama

Based on the life of the Ras Tafari Makkonen, then Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (1892-1975). Dedicated to pull his country out of isolation, pursued a policy of modernization and ... See full summary »

Director: Horacio Ojeda Lacognata | Stars: Horacio Ojeda Lacognata, Jorge López, Luciana Paredes

68. The Dictator Hunter (2007)

75 min | Documentary

An account of the brutal torture, imprisonment and murder carried out by Chadian dictator Hissene Habre during the 1980s.

Director: Klaartje Quirijns | Stars: Reed Brody, Souleymane Guengueng

Votes: 49

69. Inkotanyi (2017)

126 min | Documentary, War

For the first time, light is shed on the Inkotanyi politico-military movement that ended the genocide of the Rwandan Tutsi in 1994 and is led by Paul Kagame, currently President of Rwanda.

Director: Christophe Cotteret

Votes: 21

70. Frontline (1983– )
Episode: Ghosts of Rwanda (2004)

TV-MA | 120 min | Documentary, News

Story of Rwandian genocide in 1994, 800.000 people were slaughtered by their own goverment.

Director: Greg Barker | Stars: Madeleine Albright, Gromo Alex, Kofi Annan, Henry Anyidoho

Votes: 242

71. Farouk: Last of the Pharaohs (1970)

50 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Using rare archival film clips and photographs, this film focuses heavily on biographical details of the remarkable life story of King Farouk (1920-1965), penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, overthrown in 1952 by Nasser's revolution.

Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Bernard Archard, King Faroukh, Gamal Abdel Nasser

73. Le lion (2003 TV Movie)

105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In Africa in the fifties, during the Mau-Mau war, young Patricia's friendship with a lion she raised for years.

Director: José Pinheiro | Stars: Alain Delon, Anouchka Delon, Ornella Muti, Heino Ferch

Votes: 145

74. Mau Mau (1970)

Not Rated | 51 min | Documentary

In October 1952 the British government declared a State of Emergency in Kenya. Its object: the defeat of "Mau Mau." In the war that followed, fewer than 40 of Kenya's 40,000 white settlers ... See full summary »

Directors: Anthony Howarth, David Koff | Stars: James Cameron, Eliud Mathu, Solomon Memia, Joseph Murumbi

Votes: 5

75. Mau-Mau (1955)

58 min | Documentary, Drama

Newsman Chet Huntley narrates this documentary showing the rise of the African resistance movement known as the "Mau-Mau" against British rule in East Africa in the early 1950s.

Director: Elwood Price | Star: Chet Huntley

Votes: 27

76. Simba (1955)

Not Rated | 99 min | Adventure, Drama

A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Virginia McKenna, Basil Sydney, Donald Sinden

Votes: 469

77. Beyond Mombasa (1956)

90 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Donna Reed, Leo Genn, Ron Randell

Votes: 413

78. Safari (1956)

Approved | 90 min | Adventure

During the Mau Mau Uprising in British Kenya in the 1950s, settler-hunter Ken Duffield is a hired guide for a lion hunting party but he also hopes to find the Mau Mau rebel who killed his family.

Director: Terence Young | Stars: Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, John Justin, Roland Culver

Votes: 671

79. Something of Value (1957)

Approved | 113 min | Drama, War

In British Colonial Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, Peter and Kimani, who grew up together, find themselves on the opposite sides.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller, Juano Hernandez

Votes: 1,307

80. The Kitchen Toto (1987)

PG-13 | 96 min | Drama

The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.

Director: Harry Hook | Stars: Bob Peck, Edwin Mahinda, Phyllis Logan, Nicholas Charles

Votes: 274 | Gross: $0.10M

81. His to Keep (2013)

15 min | Short, Drama

HIS TO KEEP is a short film about the consequences of Kenya's fight for freedom as seen through the heart broken words of a Mau Mau veteran who feels he lost more than he won during the struggle.

Director: Amirah M. Tajdin | Stars: Ashford Kirimi, Ruth Maingi, Njeri Mukoma, Michael Ndichu

82. Muigwithania (2010)

88 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In 1954, in Kenya, 2 MAU MAU fighters seek shelter in an ASIAN shopkeepers house for the night. This movie is about what happens in the interaction between them through the night

Director: Amit Tyagi | Stars: Tom Alter, Tonny Ernest Njuguna, Mehul Savani

83. The Oath (2005)

Not Rated | 23 min | Drama, Short

In present-day Kenya, the legacy of the Mau Mau is kept alive, never to be forgotten.

Director: Nathan Collett | Stars: Gary Cattermole, George Maina Gakiri, Joseph Kimani, Simon J. Smithers

Votes: 17

84. Hemingway, the Hunter of Death (2001)

Adventure, Drama

During the Kenyan struggle for independence from the British in the late 1950s, a scientific safari led by Ernest Hemingway undertakes the ascent of Mount Kenya. Hemingway has been warned ... See full summary »

Director: Sergio Dow | Stars: Albert Finney, Paul Guilfoyle, Fele Martínez

Votes: 20

87. The Dictator's Playbook
Episode: Idi Amin (2018)

TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary, Drama, History

See how Idi Amin used lessons learned in the colonial British army to build a powerful dictatorship in Uganda. Through a combination of populist charm and brutal violence, he ruled for ... See full summary »

Directors: Mark Stevenson, Mark Stevenson | Stars: Tim Beckmann, Idi Amin, Alicia C. Decker, Deo Katono

Votes: 54

88. La case du siècle (2010– )
Episode: Mémoires tsiganes, l'autre génocide: Les Tsiganes dans l'Europe de la Seconde Guerre mondiale (2011)

76 min | Documentary, History, War

This is the first documentary film that tells the forgotten story of the annihilation of the Gypsies by the Nazis and their allies from one end to the other of Europe. With interviews of ... See full summary »

Directors: Idit Bloch, Juliette Jourdan

Votes: 14

92. Ethiopia Terror on Trial (1994 TV Special)

45 min | History

Correspondent George Alagiah reveals the shocking brutality of the former regime of Colonel Mengistu.

Director: Charlotte Metcalf | Star: George Alagiah

93. Teza (2008)

Not Rated | 140 min | Drama

78 Metascore

The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and ... See full summary »

Director: Haile Gerima | Stars: Aaron Arefe, Abiye Tedla, Takelech Beyene, Teje Tesfahun

Votes: 630

94. ZeroZeroZero (2019–2020)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A cocaine shipment makes its way to Europe, starting from the moment a powerful cartel of Italian criminals decides to buy it, to its journeys through Mexico, to its shipment across the Atlantic Ocean.

Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Dane DeHaan, Giuseppe De Domenico, Harold Torres

Votes: 29,380

95. Abortion Democracy: Poland/South Africa (2008)

50 min | Documentary

This documentary feature contrasts changes in Poland and South Africa regarding abortion laws and their impact on the lives of women. In the 90's, Poland banned abortion due to the ... See full summary »

Director: Sarah Diehl | Stars: Wanda Nowicka, Alicja Tysiac, Marijke Alblas, Nurrudin Farrah

Votes: 12

96. Retour à Kigali, Une affaire française (2019 TV Movie)

76 min | Documentary

Jean-Christophe Klotz was one of the few French journalists to visit Rwanda in 1994, in the midst of the genocide. He returns there to capture the reverse shot of the terrible images he had... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Christophe Klotz

97. Kigali, des images contre un massacre (2006 TV Movie)

94 min | Documentary

June 1994. Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, is given over to the butchers of the extremist Hutu militia and the Rwandan army. During an attack on a parish in which a hundred refugees have ... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Christophe Klotz | Star: Bernard Kouchner

Votes: 30

98. Black Out (2009)

95 min | Drama

Antoine Rives, a young independent journalist, is shooting news about the return of Westerners fleeing human slaughters in Rwanda... He meets Clement, a Hutu student whose Tutsi girlfriend ... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Christophe Klotz | Stars: Jalil Lespert, Cyril Gueï, Patrick Rameau, Jean-François Stévenin

Votes: 80

99. Décolonisations (2020– )

Documentary, History

An history of decolonization, told through the colonized point of view, in 3 chapters: 'Learning', 'Liberation' and 'The world is ours'

Stars: Reda Kateb, Sebastian Kowski, Laurent Lederer, Alice Seeley Harris

Votes: 81

100. Blood and Tears: French Decolonization (2020)

135 min | Documentary, History, War

This documentary gives voice to those who rose up to demand independence for their country in the aftermath of World War II, as well as their children and grandchildren.

Stars: Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Charles de Gaulle

Votes: 30



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