African History Movies

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

A former serviceman joins a movement to challenge the continent's political status quo during the Second World African Festival of Arts and Culture...

Burundi, 21st October 1993: The Democratically elected President Ndadaye is assassinated by a group of Tutsi officers. Another round of reprisals and...

The film portrays the trajectory and life of the “Agudá” people today. This is a group of descendants of Africans enslaved in...

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

An examination of how Africa's mythological stories have served as the basis for the world religions that came after, especially in Western...

Between 1904 and 1907, Germany has committed his first genocide in Namibia and has explicitly planned the extermination of two people : the Namas and...

Tunisia itself is the subject; we wanted to render the genius of the site. Tunisia is almost the central character of this little film: we see the...

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

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

A documentary covering the Second Chimurenga, the Zimbabwean War of Liberation.

This is the second part of a four parts series of documentaries on Ethiopia made by the German television journalist Klaus Stephan in the mid 60ies.

For decades, the countries of the African Sahel region have been targets of colonialism and exploitation by France and other Western powers. This...

Lesson in History was produced when Peters was a student at the West Surrey School of Art and Design. Having read The People Could Fly by Virginia...

The meeting of Getnet, an Ethiopian Jew and Salomon, an orthodox Christian, takes us into the heart of Ethiopia’s history and religious...

A history of racialism in Rwanda, from the European colonization to the 1994 genocide.

The only film about SWAPO, the liberation movement in Namibia. About its civilian and armed struggle against South African occupation and economic...