A complex story of international dealings with Rwandan Genocide Kate, raised by a white woman in the UK seeks to bring to justice killers of her adoptive mother & fellow Tutsis.
Black Earth Rising (2018)
Adu (2020)
Three stories set in Africa are entertwined–a 6-year-old Cameroon refugee boy flees from poachers who have killed his mother; a border guard struggles with his conscience when a colleague causes the death of a refugee; an animal rights advocate struggles with his temper and his druggie daughter.
The Elephant Queen (2019)
The story of how a matriarchal family of elephants & other creatures around their watering hole survive a drought in Kenya.
The Laundromat (2019)
Told by 2 crooked lawyers at its center, this is the story behind The Panama Papers, with widowed Ellen Martin investigating high finance international chicanery.
The Lion King (2019)
A terrific updating of the animated original. Click the movie title to read my entire review, including my thoughts on the many changes.
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.