Africa Movies

Intimate story of a Baka family living a traditional life in the rainforests of Cameroun.

A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.

The photographic record of an African expedition led by producer-explorer Armand Denis and his (very) photogenic and camera-toting wife Michaela, who...

An ancient church is being dismantled and moved to a new location, stone by stone. One of the gargoyles from the stones falls into the possession of a...

"Mammy Water" is mother sea, source of food. Jean Rouch filmed this short documentary in the Gulf of Guinea, in Ghana, where is held a colorful festiv...

Rabie is a kid from Sétif in 1980, trying to collect money to buy a wheelchair for his paralyzid sister Sassia, so she can get out of the house.

A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.

In 1896, Ethiopia, an African nation, largely armed with spears and knives, defeats a well-equipped and organized Italian military bent on colonizatio...

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

Thomas Sankara, former president of Burkina Faso, was known as "the African Che", and became famous in Africa due to his innovative ideas, his devasta...

A West African pig farmer has a religious vision, wherein he is told that he'll be Magloire the First, a prophet of Christ. He then sets out to rid hi...

A partnership between the Government of Mali and an American agricultural investor may see 200-square kilometers of Malian land transformed into a lar...

The made-for-cable documentary film The Real Eve is predicated on the theory that the human race can be traced to a common ancestor. The mitochondrial...

A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that...

The James Brown Story

Kids from Brooklyn, NY housing projects try to change the world when they are paired with Sierra Leonean pen pals orphaned by a civil war.

A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an international smuggling ring.

A con man on the run in Africa aids a minister's daughter by helping lead a local tribe to their new homeland.