Africa Movies

This shocking documentary reveals the plight of young Nigerians branded as witches.

The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he abandons...

"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...

Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa.

Leopards are considered to be extremely shy big cats. Only a few animals can match the elegance of these feline predators. The cautious hunters are ra...

Biniam Girmay’s recent successes have shown that African cycling is on the up, ready at last to follow athletics and football into the big time. But w...

In Old Moshi, Tanzania, a head is missing : the skull of Chief Meli, who fought the German colonial occupation of his territory and was executed in re...

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...

An African mother will do just about anything to protect her child. Bilaly is a simple peasant who is blind. He wants to “know” a woman before he dies...

Tamsir returns to Senegal after 17 years in Europe. His uncle gives him a patronage job in Dakar, virtually without duties. He visits his family's vil...

The plains of Africa have always been a hotbed of predator action, but lurking in its rivers is perhaps its most elusive killer: the Goliath tigerfish...

In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation centre Ben Aknoun to encourage a "dialogue in images"...

On her first visit to East Africa, a young woman crosses paths with the Ranger charged with being her guide. They have something in common and when th...

Shout Gladi Gladi is a documentary about hope. It tells the story of one woman's quest to cure fistula and save mother's lives in Africa. Shot in Mala...

Documentary series in two parts: 1. A people without a voice (80'),2. A land in mourning (78'). Part 1: A people without a voice: October 88, the Alg...

Documentary following Serbian football coach Zoran Đorđević as he helps form South Sudan's first national football team.

A woman - raised in the jungle - tries to help an American stop a native uprising spurned on by Nazis.

An Africa herdsman enlists magic to keep a hungry leopard away from his sleeping flock.