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. |