French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.

Four animal friends get a taste of the wild life when they break out of captivity at the Central Par...

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

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...

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

Young Africans in Paris face insecurity and vague future. Should they stay in France, or return to t...

At a festival, a chorus of women sing and dance as two stories unfold. In a village, a young women w...

Ali is the image of modern Africa. He happily returns from a football match on his motorbike but a n...
An African mother will do just about anything to protect her child. Bilaly is a simple peasant who i...

Kids from Brooklyn, NY housing projects try to change the world when they are paired with Sierra Leo...

“La Voix du Peuple,” composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root ...

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

The son of a French colonialist in Algeria returns to Algeria after learning that his father is ill....

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s re...

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

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the so...

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later...

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...

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

Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan va...