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Afrique, Je te Plumerai  = Africa, I'm Going to Fleece You.  San Francisco,
CA : California Newsreel, [1992]
 DT572 .A35 1992  A compelling and sardonic essay on the history of colonialism in Cameroon, and by extension, on the African continent. Focuses on historical as well as contemporary European cultural domination, particularly in the publishing and media industry.
Allah Tantou, a la grace de Dieu = Allah Tantou, God's will be done / Archibald Films.   DT543.822.A28 A55 1991  Through home movies, old newsreels, letters and fictional reconstruction of imprisonment, this film examines the life of the filmmaker's father, a diplomat under the Sekou Toure regime, who later disappeared into the Guinean gulag. Film reevaluates the turbulent decade of African independence and discusses its relevance to the new political order on the continent.
Battle of Algiers  PN1997.A23 B3846 With astonishing relevance to today's events, this film dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France, recreating the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés. The French win the battle, but ultimately lose the war as the Algerian people demonstrate that they will no longer be suppressed.
Carl Peters  / Bavaria-Filmkunst ; [directed by] Herbert Selpin.  PN1997.A23 C37  A film about the life of Karl Peters, the German Commissioner in East Africa during World War I.
Frantz Fanon  : black skin, white mask / a Normal Films production for BBC and the Arts Council of England in association with Illuminations ; producer, Mark Nash ; director, Isaac Julien ; written by Isaac Julien & Mark Nash.  CT2628.F35 F726 1995  A film biography of Frantz Fanon, theorist of the anti-colonial movements.
Le Grand blanc de Lambaréné  = The great white man of Lambaréné / L.N. Production ... [et al.].  PN1997.A23 G724  Revisits the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized. "Ba Kobhio discovers a man blinded to the people around him by his own spiritual self-absorption and arrogance. For Schweitzer to see himself as as a stern but loving father, he had to cast Africans as childlike primitives whom he could protect from the temptations of modernity."--www.newsreel.org/films/legrandb.htm
Le Joli mai  = The lovely month of May / Sofracima presents a film by Chris Marker and Pierre L'Homme.  DT295 .J65  A series of interviews with ordinary people in the streets of Paris speaking about their lives and feelings while living in France in May of 1962, the year of Algerian War came to an end.
Ken Saro-Wiwa  : an African martyr / produced by Nathan Sheppard ; a Millennium Movies Production.  PR9387.9.S27 Z6 1996  "Ken Saro-Wiwa, the celebrated Ogoni writer and political activist, was hanged in November 1995 by the Nigerian military dictatorship. Saro-Wiwa had been campaigning for the rights of Nigeria's Ogoni people, who have suffered from decades of resource exploitation by foreign oil companies and oppression by the Nigerian military government. This program tells Saro-Wiwa's story through his own words and those of his wife and features the only in-depth interview he gave before his death."--Container.
Lumumba, la mort du prophète = Lumumba, the death of the prophet / une production Velvet Film GmbH, Berlin, Cinémamma GmbH, Zurich en association avec La SEPT ... [et al.] ; un film de Raoul Peck ; produit par Raoul Peck, Andreas Honegger, Frank Hoffer.  DT658.2.L85 L85 1992  Reexamines the independence struggle in the Belgian Congo and its leader, Patrice Lumumba. This multi-award-winning film recounts Lumumba's tragic 200 day rule culminating with his assassination. Combines archival documentary footage of Lumumba with the memories of journalists who reported from the Congo.
Mobutu, King of Zaire  : an African tragedy / Les Films de la Passerelle, Image Création, Les Films d'Ici present a series by Thierry Michel ; produced by Christine Pireaux, Martine Barbé, Serge Lalou. DT 658.25 .M638 (3 vols.) "The definitive visual record of the rise and fall of Joseph Désiré Mobutu, ruler of Zaire (the Congo) for over 30 years. Drawing upon 140 hours of rare archival material found in Kinshasa, and 50 hours of interviews with those once close to him, it tells the story of the man at the heart of Central Africa's post-colonial history"--Container.
Sankara / director, Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda ; South Productions for Channel Four in association with RTVE (Spain) and SBS (Australia)  DT555.83.S26 S35 1991  "An imaginative profile of the former President of Burkina Faso. Sankara emerged as an idealist in a generation of young people concerned with material wealth. Ideals intact, he took power in a military coup, and died in another engineered by fellow officers" -- distributor's catalog.
 Traces of the trade HT985 .T73 2008 "Filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle Trade and gain a powerful new perspective on the black/white divide" -- Container.
Zaïre  : le cycle du serpent = Zaire : the cycle of the serpent / un film de Thierry Michel ; produit par Christine Pireaux ; scénario et réalisation, Thierry Michel.  DT658.25 .Z35 1992  Documents five weeks in Kinshasa, chronicling life in the capital city and revealing the disparities in its social fabric. In addition to bourgeois traders, religious and military figures, we see beggars, transients and social outcasts, and Zaireans grieving for their dead, martyrs to an iron-gloved dictator.

 

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