Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood in his lifetime, at least in the popular imagination. The critical assessment of his life and works in recent years, however, has been slightly more ambivalent. Ba Kobhio Bassek is the first director to examine this medical missionary from a purely African point-of-view.

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to ...

In Algeria in 1954, in a village in the Aurès region, poverty reigns over peasants enslaved by colon...

A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Be...

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...

A woman left alone in Morocco by her architect husband begins to lose her mind.

Two boys with different experiences and goals meet up in a sprawling African market. One is looking ...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt t...

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of wat...

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...

The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of t...

This film speaks of archaic peoples, their customs and mores, in an attempt to make the last snapsho...

Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remo...

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...

Directed by Peter Casaer and narrated by Daniel Day-Lewis, this documentary provides a harrowing loo...

Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchfu...