The film opens at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, with a phone conversation between Mr. Makinde Esho (Femi Jacobs) and his Managing director (Jide Kosoko). Makinde is reminded by his MD about how important it is for him to get an authorization from the Ministry of Land, and return to Lagos with a positive feedback. Just as Makinde is about to board a Taxi, he is interrupted by Ejura (Linda Ejiofor), a female Corp member who pleads for a Lift, as she is short on cash and there is a long queue at the ATM. Makinde refuses at first, but after much persuasion from Ejura, he reluctantly agrees. Even though Ejura had promised earlier to keep mute during the ride, her inquisitive nature gives Makinde facial expressions that prompt answers and eventually start a conversation.
Un journaliste désabusé et un jeune pasteur réformé tentent de sauver la vie d'un enfant accusé de sorcellerie en luttant courageusement contre la corruption et les faux prophètes.
The film centers on three children - Nancy, a 13-year-old choir singer; Rose, a 14-year-old dancer; and Dominic, a 14-year-old xylophone player. They are members of the Acholi ethnic group, living in the remote northern Uganda refugee camp of Patongo, which is under military protection from the Lord's Resistance Army, a terrorist group that has been rebelling against the government for the past two decades. In 2005, the camp's primary school won its regional music competition and headed to Kampala to participate in the annual National Music Competition. War/Dance focuses on three of the eight categories: Western choral performance, instrumental music, and traditional dance, where the students perform the Bwola, the dance of the Acholi. Over the course of three months, the film's creative team observes the three youngsters as they prepare for the event and gain their confidence enough to have them discuss the horrors they have experienced and express their individual fears, hopes, and dreams.
In ancient America, Helam witnesses the star heralding the birth of Christ, and 33 years later he faithfully awaits the promised coming of the Messiah despite persecution for this belief. Helam's son, Jacob, is interested more in the ways of the world, including the lovely Laneah, and when his abilities as an artisan bring an offer to work for the wealthy and powerful Kohor, he jumps at the chance and is estranged from his father's house.
In the spring of 2003, Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, and Laren Poole traveled to Africa to document the War in Darfur. Instead, they changed their focus to the conflict in northern Uganda, Africa's second longest-running conflict after the Eritrean War of Independence. The documentary depicts the abduction of children who are used as child soldiers by Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). This film centers around a group of Ugandan children who walk miles every night to places of refuge in order to avoid abduction by the LRA.
Robin Grant(David Robb), his wife Tilly (Hayley Mills) and daughter Elspeth (Holly Aird) move to British East Africa (now called Kenya) to set up a coffee plantation. The meet Piet Roos, a Boer big game hunter and Njombo, a native who goes to work from them. The Grants face many travails in getting established, but these improve after they hire Sammy as the headman of the plantation. Hereward (Nicholas Jones) and Lettice {Sharon Maughan Palmer move to the area. There is a fight between Roos and Sammy. Then Njombo kills Kimon, who was the Palmer’s headman. As a result his chief strips him of his property and Sammy marries the girl Njombo wanted. Elspeth has a very interesting New Year’s Eve party with Mrs. Nimmo and a newcomer to the area Alec Wilson while her parents and the Palmers go to Nairobi. A big game hunter, Ian Crawford (Ben Cross) arrives in the area and becomes infatuated with Lettice Palmer, who gives a pony to Elspeth. We learn Lettice left her first husband to elope with Hereward and Elspeth develops an intense dislike for Hereward Palmer after he shoots a baby antelope on a hunt. Sammy arranges for a curse to be put on Njombo, and it literally takes an “Act of God” to get it lifted. After the railroad reaches Thika, Lettice gets a piano, but during a party held to celebrate its arrival, a leopard kills one of her dogs. During the hunt to get it, Hereward kills the leopard, but is almost killed by its mate, but saved by Roos. The Palmers, Tilly and Crawford go on a safari, during which Lettice and Crawford have an affair. Hereward and Crawford are about to have a brawl when Crawford’s servant stabs Hereward. As a result Crawford leaves and Lettice stays with Hereward. Then on August 4, 1914 the Grants learn war has been declared on Germany. Robin joins the army, while Tilly becomes a nurse and Elspeth goes to school, where she is bullied for being a know-it-all. She runs away back to Thika. Ian Crawford is killed. Then Robin is transferred to France so all the Grants leave Africa and return to Europe for the duration.
Checkpoint is shot in cinéma vérité style with no narration and very little context. Shamir himself is absent from the film except for one scene in which a border guard asks him to try to make him "look good," and Shamir asks how he should do that.
En dépit d’une répartition sévère des rôles entre hommes et femmes, imposée par la tradition, Sabra, dès l’âge de dix ans préfère les jeux de garçons. Sa mère l’initie à son futur rôle de femme, mais lui parle en même temps des nombreuses privations dont elle a souffert au cours de sa vie. Sabra sait qu’elle ne parviendra jamais à se soumettre à cette hiérarchie. Elle va poursuivre ses études en ville, mais là aussi, elle souffre de la discrimination envers les femmes. Elle décide de s’en aller et brûle tous ses livres pour ne laisser aucune trace d’elle-même
In 2008, Paul Kagame, as President of Rwanda, had released the findings from an investigation into the massacre which had occurred there in 1994, when fighting began in the Eastern Congo at Rwanda's western border. The influence of French military interference in Rwanda plus the Belgian occupation are explained, in relation to the long-time feud between the Hutus and Tutsis, Rwanda's two main ethnic groups. Meanwhile, survivor Jean-Pierre Sagahutu, whose family had died during the violence, seeks to track down the man who had murdered them. Sagahutu eventually finds the culprit and decides what to do next.
Le documentaire est un plaidoyer pour l'importance de la préservation de l'écosystème du Parc national du Serengeti en Tanzanie, rendu célèbre dans le monde entier grâce à Bernhard Grzimek.
Dans un pays africain non-nommé (probablement le Ghana si on se réfère aux plaques d'immatriculation et au fait que les protagonistes parlent twi), Agu est rattrapé par une guerre civile qu'il ne comprend pas. Devenu orphelin, il est happé par la guerre, qui le transforme en enfant soldat sous les ordres d'un charismatique et psychotique commandant d'une armée rebelle.
En octobre 1993, en Somalie, la guerre civile provoque une famine dans la population civile. Les forces de l'ONU sont attaquées par une faction dirigée par le général Mohamed Farrah Aidid. Les États-Unis envoient un détachement composé de membres de la Delta Force, des rangers et du 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) ayant pour mission d'arrêter Aidid. Faute de pouvoir trouver Aidid en personne, l'unité s'en prend à ses lieutenants.
C'est l'histoire d'un homme et d'une femme de caractères opposés, lui fruste et bourru, elle délicate et un peu coincée, qui se rencontrent à l'occasion de la guerre, vivent une histoire très forte, apprennent à s'apprécier et finissent par s'aimer.
Au lendemain de la défaite d'Isandhlwana (Natal), c'est la Bataille de Rorke's Drift où une centaine de Tuniques rouges défendent une ferme faisant office de mission au révérend Jack Witt, contre 4 000 guerriers zoulous. Malgré de nombreuses attaques coordonnées des indigènes, les soldats britanniques repoussent les assauts. Alors qu'ils croient la bataille perdue, ils reçoivent un hommage de leurs ennemis saluant leur courage et leur ténacité.