Africa Movies

African animals, including a lookout monkey, await with trepidation the arrival of big-game hunter Theodore Roosevelt.

Peter Westerveld, artist and visionary, doesn’t want institutions to resolve the problems linked to earth’s problems. Growing up in...

Africa, that huge drop of strange land that hangs from Europe, resembles in many ways that road that only takes the railway route teaching you the...

After brilliant studies in France and a 15-year absence from his homeland, Adama, a young graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, rushes back to...

Silent adventure film

A cutting edge voice in comedy, Kenyan-British comic McGrath offers acerbic takes on living in a white neighborhood, the British Empire, and more.

A glimpse of life as seen through young people at a Zimbabwean children's home.

A TV adaptation of the myth of Queen Pocou, a legendary heroine who sacrificed her own son to appease the hungry gods.

A Djiboutian film.

The African pioneer Edouard Sailly created a distinctive poetic cinema. Here, he ponders the state of mind of a mourning fisherman.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Guangzhou, a.k.a. Canton, is southern China’s centuries-old trading port. Today the booming metropolis of 14 million is a mecca of mass...

In July 1860, the schooner Clotilda slipped quietly into the dark waters of Mobile, Ala., holding 110 Africans stolen from their homes and families,...

Réunion Island: An Overview is documentary short film created by Brian Iannone. It is a documentary-style video that features the island of...

For ten years three guerilla girls in Mozambique risked their lives in the struggle for freedom in a civil war. It was back then filmed by a BBC...

David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this ethnographic documentary. The film's biggest part...

Ebola hunters stomp out the Ebola virus.

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...