Africa

Examines the cultural roots of traditional dance in Guyana and how numerous cultural influences have been blended in this multicultural society.

A documentary highlighting the dangers of witchcraft in Africa. Christian leaders speak on their personal experiences in the spiritual war between the light and the darkness.

Episode 7 is intertidal, locating itself in and as mangrove, by speaking to interconnectedness and enmeshment. It constructs future oral histories by inviting real participants and asking them to image and imagine themselves as their future selves. This discursive, collaborative exercise in place-making is one where both science and the imaginary dovetail into a possible, collective futurology. In blending fact and speculative fiction, narrative and documentary, Shezad enacts a unique, sliding temporal scale that underlies the entire Leviathan project, connecting deep time to tentative futurity.

In her debut standup show, pioneering entertainer BeBe Zahara Benet recounts immigrating from West Africa to America through a series of hysterical sketches, unexpected audience interactions and razor shop social commentary.

Originally conceived as a film about 9/11, Richard Wagner, and the warrior Hagen von Tronje, to be shot in the German southwest African colony of Lüderitz, Namibia, The African Twin Towers instead turned into an unusually personal and absorbing documentary about an incomplete film and Schlingensief’s art in general.

An actuality following one of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's many hunting expeditions into Africa, composed mostly of the culture and practices of native peoples, their amusements and rituals.

Using innovative 3D graphics, computer animation, reconstructions and location footage, this engrossing video transports viewers to Northern Africa to visit the sites of some remarkable Roman architecture. On the itinerary are the subterranean city of Bulla Regia and El Jem's impressive Colosseum. Foremost scholars, including professor Roger Wilson of Nottingham University and professor David Mattingly of Leicester University, provide insight.

Organized to raise awareness of the malaria crisis in Africa, this impressive fund-raising concert brings together some of the continent's most talented musicians. Performing in front an audience of 50,000 at the Iba Mar Diop Stadium in Dakar, Senegal, the lineup includes Youssou N'Dour, Orchestra Baobab, Oumou Sangare, Tony Allen, Awadi, Corneille, Manu Dibango, Pape Diouf, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Seun Anikulap Kuti, Awilo Longomba and many more.

Three children of a polygamous layabout who has a throng of children that he cannot support are tired of their turbulent family life and look for a stable environment elsewhere. [parts 1-2]

BOUND: African versus African Americans (AVAA) is a hard hitting documentary that addresses the little known tension that exists between Africans and African Americans. AVAA uses personal testimonials to expose this rift, then it takes us on a journey through the corridors of African and African American historical experiences as it illuminates the moments that divide and those that bind Africans and African American.

Contemporary Christian rockers Israel and New Breed set out on the road to support their gold-selling, Grammy nominated release Live from Another Level, and the cameras are rolling to capture all of the praise and performance in this release of a concert staged in Cape Town, South Africa. Songs featured in this performance include "Alive," "Favor of the Lord," "Not Forgotten," and "Turn it Around."

Join Wyoma, the respected lead dancer and director of the Damballa dance troupe, as she teaches you the African way of moving your entire body with passion and joy ... symbolic animal and elemental gestures ... secrets of hip, torso, and shoulder articulations, and much more. Here's the instructional program you need to have a high-energy African dance class at home. Can anyone learn these dances? "If you can talk, you can sing," they say in Zimbabwe, "and if you can walk, you can dance." So get ready to move--and be moved--with African Healing Dance.

The Worldwide Anglican Communion had failed to keep its promise to its LGBT children to listen to their experiences. And so in Voices of Witness: Africa, Anglican men and women from across the continent tell their stories of intolerance and community, in secrecy and hope, of facing challenges and seeking dignity as people of faith who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

When Othmane Zolati left El Jadida, Morocco at twenty years old, he had never been anywhere. 1398 days and 24 countries later, he returned home a changed man.

A documentary of mask performances of the Bwa people in the village of Boni, in central Burkina Faso.

African masks in performance: The spectacular masks of the Winiama people in the rural village of Ouri, in Burkina Faso, perform to reenact the encounters between the village ancestors and the spirits of the wilderness. This video emphasizes performance. There are lots of long takes of individual mask's performances from start to finish, with musical accompaniment, crowd reaction. Professor Roy has taught African art history at the University of Iowa for thirty years, and he has been doing research in Burkina Faso for thirty-seven years. He recently published The Land of Flying Masks: Art and Culture of Burkina Faso (Munich: Prestel, 2007).

Love collides with social class and colonialism when Aba Appiah, born to privilege, falls in love with Joe Quansah, son of a fisherman. Her father, retired civil servant Kofi Appiah, has other plans for her, and seeks to block their marriage. The resulting conflict has complex and unexpected consequences.

On the culture and politics of radical black theatre work in South Africa under apartheid, featuring Ingoapele Madingoane, Matsemela Manaka, Gibson Kente and the women of Crossroads

The story of the lives of five ordinary black South African women living under the apartheid system, secretly shot with the help of journalist Nomavenda Mathiane, also featuring interviews with Fatima Meer and for the first time, Winnie Mandela