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.

When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't s...

Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hun...

August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I...

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with...

In Africa in the fifties, during the Mau-Mau war, young Patricia's friendship with a lion she raised...

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the ...

Five unrelated tales: (1) "The Ravishing Queen" / "La Reina Bella", in which the queen choses a king...

Did you ever realise some people that would not sit next to them in a bus, or talk them. We eve hesi...

Rabie is a kid from Sétif in 1980, trying to collect money to buy a wheelchair for his paralyzid sis...

After a series of personal and professional setbacks, a white advertising executive signs up to part...

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...

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital...

Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate...

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...

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

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conq...

Anbarasu, young and arrogant, and Nallasivam, damaged - physically but not spiritually - by life, ar...

Walter Burton's realistic photographs depicting poor treatment of Maori prisoners are rejected by la...

An action thriller which lends a multinational depiction of contemporary Africa and centers on a loc...