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A famous murder case among Kenya's British colonial society in the 1940s.
Based on real life events, the film takes place during the guerrilla phase of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Three officers ...
Sir Henry Curtis, Allan Quatermain and Captain Goode set of to explore the unexplored regions of darkest Africa. Many dangers ...
India, in 1895.
A British regiment stationed in a newly independent African state is preparing to celebrate the Queen's birthday when Colonel Deal ...
Sammy, aged ten, is orphaned in an air raid at Port Said during Suez. He sets out alone with a ...
Deals with the mission of an engineer who has to build a railway in the African jungles aftet two of ...
Set in the North West Frontier province of British India around the turn of the century against a background of ...
India 1947. Story of an Anglo-Indian girl, feeling rejected by both her worlds, in the conflict between her attraction for ...
An army captain wanders, wounded, into a Bedouin tent, and is nursed by the Sheik's daughter, whom he marries.He returns ...
Comedy. Mr. Mensah entrusts the building of his house to his irresponsible nephew, who wastes all the money and materials. ...
Story of Arab traders' seduction of Galana tribesmen from their peaceful ways and the efforts of a game warden to ...
Story of a police officer in Sierra Leone who has a love affair with a girl during his wife's absence ...
Story of half-caste's officer's devotion to duty, his love for General's daughter. Filmed in Cinemascope. Based on novel by Talbot ...
Dramatisation of the Bakiga people's attempt to cultivate the Kigezi district of Uganda, and their encounter with the Pygmies.
The camera ...
A story of transition within the Gold Coast, as the boy Kumasenu moves from a small fishing village to the ...
Story of terrifying adventures of rubber planter and his wife in Malaya whose estate is attacked by bandits.
Mulenga is hired to do odd jobs in the grounds of a big house. However, another employee deviously tries to ...
A fictional children's film recalling the journey of trekkers in 1892 from the Transvaal to the Mashomba Valley in Mashonaland. ...
Story of the efforts of a Game Warden in East Africa to preserve wild animals in his territory.
'"How better ways of feeding children came to an African village".
A Story told in the traditional idiom of an African ...
The orphan son of a British soldier, after being given a message for a British secret agent in India, is ...
In 1897 Africa, a famous guide agrees to help a woman and her brother search for her husband in unknown ...
A young African leaves his village in Swaziland and seeks fame and fortune in Johannesburg.