This special, behind-the-scenes film takes us on a trip to Mali to witness Amadou & Mariam at home and their musical encounter with legendary artist and producer Manu Chao during the making of their hit album Dimanche à Bamako, The music provides the lifeblood of the film, featuring the hits Sénégal Fast Food and La Realité, popular favourites Coulibaly, M’Bifé and Camions Sauvages plus a rare, unreleased live song by Manu Chao, Kira.
25 years ago, Louis Sarno, an American, heard a song on the radio and followed its melody into the C...
Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a ...
This 1944 black and white silent film provides brief glimpses of the lifestyle among Kenya's white/E...
Children and teenagers throw sticks, berries, and leaves at each other from perches in a large baoba...
Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be tra...
Women from three separate Ju/'hoan bands have gathered at a mangetti grove at !O to play an intense ...
Fela Anikulapo Kuti created the musical movement Afrobeat and used it as a political forum to oppose...
A Luta Continua explains the military struggle of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) again...
An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushm...
Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer ...
A portrait of the mythical band Bembeya Jazz, which contributed to the heyday of Sekou Touré’s cultu...
A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new...
This shocking documentary reveals the plight of young Nigerians branded as witches.
These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...
A powerful portrait of Africa's most widely acclaimed contemporary artist El Anatsui. It gives an i...