In the Beginning

A Senegalese storyteller travels to Belgium and observes the lives of African expatriates in Europe. Dreams and struggles great and small are...

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The...

A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat...

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the waterholes.

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the...

An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the...