Africa

Jim decides to leave his tribal area to seek his fortune in Johannesburg. As soon as he arrives, three gangsters mug him. When he regains consciousness, a friendly night watchman takes care of him. With the watchman's help, Jim gets a job in a nightclub as a waiter.

Found Super 8mm home movies of wildlife from 1960s apartheid era South Africa and colonial Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) comprise the visual elements of African Film School. In order to disrupt the viewer, American filmmaker Roger Horn juxtaposes these found images with audio he recorded while attending a wildlife film-training program in Cape Town in 2007. Through the disruption of filmmaking conventions Horn looks to make the viewer confront their own stereotypes and ponder the nature of capturing images in Southern Africa.

“Over 500 years ago, my tribe arrived on the shores of India from Africa,” says the social worker narrator of Asha Stuart’s Lost Tribe of Africa. His ancestors fled enslavement, escaping into the forest in the Indian state of Karnataka where they live today, most of them Hindu converts. India’s 35,000 descendants of slaves from Africa’s Bantu Region are members of the Siddi tribe. Siddi means “enlightened one,” but the Siddi are “Untouchables” in India’s caste system. “How do you empower the youth in a world whose people think they’re less than human?” asks the narrator, whose life mission is to do just that.

Feature-length documentary assembled by Lady Grace MacKenzie, recognized as the first white woman ever to conduct an expedition into Darkest Africa.

Cohen and Kelly families go to Africa to buy elephant tusks.

Directed by Tonia Selley, Dead Men Don't Tour was first broadcast on SABC 3 at 9.30pm on the 5th July 2001 just after 'Ripley's Believe Or Not'. This film features wonderful concert footage, backstage antics, interviews with Craig Bartholomew Strydom and Stephen "Sugar" Segerman, Rodriguez and his family, the promoters, the fans and the musicians. All live footage was filmed at the concerts in Pretoria, Durban and the Blues Room in Johannesburg.

This collection of the historically vital works of America's legendary first African-American filmmakers is the only one of its kind. Funded in part by a highly successful Kickstarter campaign, the packaged set includes no fewer than a dozen feature-length films and nearly twice as many shorts and rare fragments. Subject matter includes race issues that went unaddressed by Hollywood for decades.

Propaganda film produced by the British Colonial Film Unit depicting the role of African servicemen during World War II.

Propaganda film produced by the British Colonial Film Unit depicting the African Conference in London during September and October of 1948.

A reinterpretation of the process of arrival of enslaved blacks in Rio de Janeiro, filmed in Pequena Africa.

In the spirit of a 'mountaineering safari', four Italians fly to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya and a compulsory base for both hunters of the great reserves and climbers of the great African mountains. Crossed the land of the Masai, rich in game, they, in fact, climb, in four days, up to the top of Kibo, the crater off that, with its 5895 meters, is the highest point of Kilimandjaro and all Africa. After two days of descent, they finally enter the Serengeti National Park, inside the vast crater of the Ngorongoro.

Colour, silent film recording people, costumes, rites and festivities seen at a Durbar, which celebrates the culmination of Muslim festivals of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

Dollars and Dreams is a documentary film focused on the pursuits and challenges of numerous West African immigrants as they confront the idea of the American Dream and the reality of the New York experience.

The conquest of Tunisia was a triumph for the United Nations, who on land, sea and air, worked as one. This film, together with another made by American Allies, shows how victory was shaped and achieved. Africa Freed tells chiefly of the part played by British arms as recorded by our cameramen who marched alongside. It is a tribute to those fighting with allies in American and France.

Flying in a motorized paraglider over one of the most diverse continents in the world, George Steinmetz captures the stunning beauty of Africa's landscapes and people. His pictures show not only the spectacular patterns of the land, but also the potential and hope that the continent encompasses. Steinmetz made his first trip to Africa while in college, and spent two and a half years hitch-hiking across the continent. "I didn't have a goal to change Africa. I just wanted to marinate in it," he said. A self-taught photographer, Steinmetz has traveled through more than 30 countries in Africa photographing its diverse wildlife, landscape and culture. For the past decade much of his work has involved flying a ultralight aircraft to photograph remote landscapes. His foot-launched aircraft consists of a backpack motor and paraglider-style wing. It is the world's lightest and slowest motorized aircraft and allows a unique and more intimate style of aerial photograph

Rwanda's capital Kigali is not a hotspot for roller skaters - at least not yet. There are no halfpipes and no sprayers here. The sport is still completely unknown here - and therefore even a roller skater like Abdul Karim Habyarimana offers a very rare sight. Especially when he casually overtakes the cars during his acrobatic shots on the open road. For Karim, life takes place in eight roles: an attitude he also wants to bring closer to the up-and-coming generation of roller skaters.

The film focuses on the positive side of Africa rarely seen. The film presents the cultural richness of Africa and explains ancient customs and traditions while celebrating the music, dance and welcoming nature of the majority of Africans.