african history movies

Palm Trees in the Snow (2015)
7.397 / 10

Drama, History, Romance

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her...

The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019)
6.837 / 10

Drama, Thriller, History

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid...

Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)
6.7 / 10

Documentary, History

Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18th, 1961. Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General, mysteriously dies in a plane...

This Magnificent Cake! (2018)
6.6 / 10

Animation, History, Comedy, Drama, Mystery

In 1885, Africa is a succulent cake destined to be wildly divided and everyone wants a piece. A disturbed European king, a Pygmy working in a luxury...

Africa Rising (2019)
7.5 / 10

Documentary, History, Music

How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a...

Totems and Taboos (2018)
7 / 10

Documentary, History

In Brussels, Belgium, the Royal Museum of Central Africa is undertaking a radical renovation, both physical and ethical, to show with sincerity,...

The State Against Mandela and the Others (2018)
6.8 / 10

Documentary, History, Animation

South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country...

Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare (2019)
6.3 / 10

Documentary

The history of warfare as it relates to global Black society, broken down into 7 chapters that examines the ways the system of racism wages warfare...

Namibia: The Story of a German Colony (2019)
6 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Germans colonized the land of Namibia, in southern Africa, during a brief period of time, from 1840 to the end of the World War I. The story of the...

The Imperial Lullaby (2020)
5.3 / 10

Documentary, History

The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless...

The Rumba Kings (2021)
9 / 10

Documentary, History, Music

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African...

We Who Remain (2017)
7.5 / 10

Documentary, History, War

Sudan, Southern Kordofan, the Nuba Mountains in Africa. Scenes from the forgotten war that the fighters of the Nuba people have held since 2011...

Circle Unbroken: A Gullah Journey from Africa to America (2014)
0 / 10

Documentary, Music

75% of all enslaved Africans coming to America came in through Beaufort and the sea islands of South Carolina. This beautiful and picturesque tourist...

The Writer from a Country Without Bookstores (2019)
6.4 / 10

Documentary, History

The ruthless dictator Teodoro Obiang has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron hand since 1979. Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel is the most translated...

Toute l'Algérie du monde (2001)
0 / 10

The largest country in the Arab world and a producer of hydrocarbons, Algeria has everything it needs to weigh on the international scene. But...

Voyage à Tombouctou (1994)
10 / 10

Documentary