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.
How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the hars...
This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conserv...
A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema ...
In July 1860, the schooner Clotilda slipped quietly into the dark waters of Mobile, Ala., holding 11...
A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new...
Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held ...
Edeltraut Hertel - a midwife caught between two worlds. She has been working as a midwife in a small...
A poetic tribute to writer, poet and environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was executed alongsi...
An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushm...
Filmmaker Christopher Quinn observes the ordeal of three Sudanese refugees -- Jon Bul Dau, Daniel Ab...
Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his fathe...
It's war. War against an invisible enemy that is not as deadly as we are told. The world is changing...
This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...
An epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall — an ambitious vision to grow a wall of trees stretc...
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...
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. ...
A Luta Continua explains the military struggle of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) again...
In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...