In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation centre Ben Aknoun to encourage a "dialogue in images" between the two factions. Together with his students he made a film that shows the history of the Algerian War and of the ALN (National Liberation Army), and life during the reconstruction.
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...
A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unname...
Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("...
In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...
25 years ago, Louis Sarno, an American, heard a song on the radio and followed its melody into the C...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a vast, mineral rich country the size of Western Europe. Ala...
In the North African desert in World War II, a crippled American fighter plane that is unable to tak...
A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...
Fela Anikulapo Kuti created the musical movement Afrobeat and used it as a political forum to oppose...
Africa in the sixties. The Nile perch, a ravenous predator, is introduced into Lake Victoria as a sc...
Ibogaine is a plant extract that stops drug addiction. In this documentary, a 34-year-old heroin add...
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...
Guangzhou, a.k.a. Canton, is southern China’s centuries-old trading port. Today the booming metropol...
In the early 1970s, Lakhdar, an Algerian peasant, is forced to leave his desert land and his family ...
In the city of Guelma, which was once called Heliopolis in ancient times, the daily life of an Alger...
An intimate view of the panorama of African wildlife, giving a sense of what it is really like to be...
Tippi is no ordinary child. She believes that she has the gift of talking to animals and that they a...