African History Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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.