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- StarsSam WaterstonUncover the hidden history of Africa's great coastal kingdoms and its mysterious counterparts in the heartland of Zimbabwe and southern Africa. For years, this legacy has been denied---only now can the true story be revealed.
- DirectorShareen AndersonLisa HenryStarsRageh OmaarIn June 2010, the eyes of the world were on South Africa as it hosted the largest international sporting event - the FIFA World Cup. For ordinary South Africans, it was also a month-long reprieve from the usual bad news about crime, corruption, and poverty that has plagued the nation in recent years. But it is only now, months after the World Cup has been over and the fans have long gone home, that South Africa can finally access how it moves forward, and how it overcomes the huge number of challenges it faces.
- DirectorDarrell RoodtStarsKudzai ChimbairaFarai VeremuNatasha GandiZimbabwe is an orphan. Her parents and sister have died of AIDS. The members of her community are not able to look after her and she is forced to travel to a family member in Beitbridge, a town on the border with South Africa, for support.
- DirectorGodwin MawuruStarsJesesi MungoshiDominic KanaventiViolet NdlovuA classic African film that has struck a nerve that runs across the continent, with an original soundtrack and supporting performance by Zimbabwe's legendary World Music sensation, Oliver Mtukudzi.
- DirectorIsaac MabhikwaStarsMisheck GashaWebster GonzoDumiso GumedeThandi finds out the complexities of love, when David, the schoolboy Mister Charming, coolly sweeps her off her feet.
- DirectorIngrid SinclairStarsMarian KunongaUlla MahakaMoise MaturaThe 1970s in the former Rhodesia, today Zimbabwe: The native people are rising up against their white suppressors. As the war reaches even the most distant villages, the two friends Florence and Nyasha join the fighters and assume new names - Flame and Liberty. But the war is not as easy as they thought.
- DirectorTsitsi DangarembgaStarsRachel BednarFiona BellFidelis ChezaTwo teens, Tamari and Itai, are impoverished following the death of their parents when their uncle takes their plow which they need to feed themselves. While their preoccupied neighbors in the village ignore them, Itai leaves for Harare and Tamari stays behind to care for their younger brother and sister. Finally, some of the neighbors notice and come together to support the children.
- DirectorJohn RiberStarsFrederick BengtssonLazarus BooraPrince BulayamaA teenage soccer star learns some tough lessons about the consequences of unprotected sex.
- StarsAngela SkalaThe obsession with everlasting youth viewed from an unexpected angle.
- DirectorDarrell RoodtStarsJennifer HudsonTerrence HowardElias KoteasA drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.
- DirectorEdward ZwickStarsLeonardo DiCaprioDjimon HounsouJennifer ConnellyA fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond.
- DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsDerek LukeTim RobbinsBonnie MbuliA drama about terrorism in Apartheid-era South Africa, revolving around a policeman and a young man who carries out solo attacks against the regime.
- DirectorKevin MacdonaldStarsJames McAvoyForest WhitakerGillian AndersonBased on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.
- DirectorTerry GeorgeStarsDon CheadleSophie OkonedoJoaquin PhoenixPaul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.
- DirectorJon CassarStarsKiefer SutherlandCherry JonesBob GuntonJack Bauer confronts African general/aspiring dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsRichard RoundtreeFrank FinlayVonetta McGeePrivate investigator John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.
- StarsLeVar BurtonRobert ReedJohn AmosA dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.
- DirectorBreck EisnerStarsMatthew McConaugheyPenélope CruzSteve ZahnMaster explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a WHO doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator.
- DirectorMatthew AeberhardLeander WardStarsMariella FrostrupZabou BreitmanKaroline HerfurthThe mysterious lives of flamingos are captured on film with a birds-eye view of the animals living in Africa.
- DirectorKeith ScholeyAlastair FothergillStarsSamuel L. JacksonPatrick StewartMeet Mara, an endearing lion cub striving to be like her mother; Sita, a cheetah and single mother of five; and Fang, a proud leader of the pride who must defend his family from a rival lion.