A terrific updating of the animated original. Click the movie title to read my entire review, including my thoughts on the many changes.
The Lion King (2019)
3100, Run and Become (2018)
The spiritual connection of running and prayer is powerfully explored. Click the headline to read my complete review.
The Heart of Nuba (2016)
This moving documentary is worth the effort to see it. Click the image to read my entire review.
Black Panther (2018)
The new Black Panther must fight for the throne of his African nation & also those who would steal its valuable vibranium .
Lumumba 2000)
This docudrama relates the rise to power of the man who might have stabilized the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, but whom the CIA helped to kill because it feared he was turning toward Moscow.
ROOTS (1977 TV Series)
Alex Haley traces roots of his African heritage back to the days of slavery & then to Kunta Kinte, captured in Africa, sold into slavery in the Colonies, but never giving up his dream of freedom.
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
The story of an African Christian boy soldier forced to kill & steal by a war lord puts a human face on news stories of civil war carnage plaguing Africans.
Timbuktu (2014)
The horror of daily life under sharia law is shown in this African film set in the city of Timbuktu, one family especially suffering from its application.
AMISTAD (1997)
The story of how abolitionists brought about the freeing of captive Africans who revolted against their captors on the ship ironically named Amistad.
Terraferma
A Sicilian family, at odds over how to cope with the changing times, must decide whether to help a group of African illegal immigrants whom the grandfather has rescued at sea.