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- DirectorClive HardingStarsIan YuleKen GampuTamara FrankeTwo prisoners, a white racist and a black man escape. They discover that the only way to survive is to bury their prejudice and rely on one another.
- DirectorGöran Hugo OlssonStarsLauryn HillKati OutinenGayatri Chakravorty SpivakThe most daring moments in the struggle for liberation from colonial rule.
- DirectorTerence RyanStarsChristopher CazenoveEdita BrychtaPatrick ShaiWhen an African country declares its independence, the results vary from thrilling to catastrophic, depending on what side of revolution one fought with.
- DirectorJürgen GoslarStarsChristopher LeeJames FaulknerHorst FrankA colonial police officer in Rhodesia hunts down the albino terrorist who raped and murdered his fiancée.
- DirectorMichael RaeburnStarsKaren BlackJohn ThawJohn KaniIn the 1940s, a city girl moves from America to her husband's failing farm in Southern Rhodesia in colonial Africa. Unhappy and unhinged, she starts an affair with their black servant which leads to tragedy.
- Stars'Frank' Edward FillisTexas Jack Jr.Peter LobengulaShort war film dramatizing the final engagement of the Shangani Patrol and the death of Major Allan Wilson and his men in Rhodesia in 1893.
- DirectorDavid MillinStarsBrian O'ShaughnessyWill HutchinsAdrian SteedThe nerve-jangling true tale of a battalion of volunteer soldiers facing the might of King Lobengula's army in Rhodesia in 1893.
- DirectorScott ReedStarsChad PhillipsDuring the 70's hippie movement in Rhodesia, Basil O'Connell-Jones experiences life after death when he's shot in the head during the racially energised bush war.
- DirectorLucy BaileyAndrew ThompsonAn intimate and moving account of one family's extraordinary courage in the face of overwhelming injustice and brutality.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsDana AndrewsJeanne CrainDavid FarrarIn Rhodesia, the accidental death of a diamond broker raises suspicions with his American insurer, which sends a claims investigator to clarify the matter.
- DirectorMichele LupoStarsGiuliano GemmaUrsula AndressJack PalanceA goods trader in southern Africa aids a mysterious nun escape the clutches of a dangerous ivory and animal trafficker.
- DirectorJay BulgerStarsGinger BakerFemi KutiEric ClaptonGinger Baker looks back on his musical career with Cream and Blind Faith; his introduction to Fela Kuti; his self-destructive patterns and losses of fortune; and his current life inside a fortified South African compound.
- DirectorJames FargoStarsRichard HarrisRichard RoundtreeJoan CollinsThe South African businessman David Swansey (Richard Harris) is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes patriot Gideon Marunga (Richard Roundtree) an angry man.
- DirectorRumbi KatedzaStarsFrank MalabaChrysthle Malaba-NcubeMiles Malaba'Transactions' tells a story of Zimbabwean migration through a family divided by the circumstances of a failed economy. Three siblings, Frank, Miles and Portia, sustain their family through remittances while longing for the country and family they left behind. While the fourth sibling, Chrysthle, who is still in Zimbabwe, is frustrated by her inability to help financially, even though she has a full-time job. Their mother, MaMlilo, is a conduit of all the family's challenges in hyper-inflationary Zimbabwe. Everyone who needs money comes to her in the hopes that she can help them financially. With each monetary transaction, expectations are raised on both sides.
- DirectorRobert PetersStarsJackie AppiahMzembi CharlesAdam ChasemaMugabe rises from being a prisoner to power as a guerrilla fighter but gradually becomes the world's top tyrant. After four decades in power his allies do the unexpected.
- DirectorGösta StevensStarsVictor SjöströmRune LindströmCarin CederströmTogether with his wife Carin and their little son Lasse, Helge Tellberg is in the position of leaving Sweden to become a missionary in Rhodesia.
- DirectorMalaika MushanduStarsPrudence KatomeniCharmaine MujeriChipo BizureSet amid the turbulent events of Zimbabwe's historic 2017 "takeover" from Robert Mugabe, Mirage tells the thrilling story of three women's plot to escape from one of the country's notorious maximum-security prisons. Tambu, who is serving a five-year sentence for stealing a chicken at her rural home village, hears about her daughter's ongoing abuse by her own brother and the consequent mental illness of her daughter. A raging drive to rescue her sees Tambu contemplating the unthinkable. Together with fellow inmates Zoe and Memo, the trio plot on an elaborate scheme to escape the prison in order to take back control over their own lives. On the other side of their jail bars, an internal struggle unfolds among the prison officers as they jostle for power and the privileges that come with ascending to the position of Prison Warden. As a side effect of this power struggle, an opportunity for escape arises and a concrete plan begins to take shape in Tambu's head. As she fills Zoe and Memo in on the plan, the trio decide to strike during a church ceremony by the popular prison pastor. Meanwhile an unlikely collusion between some opportunistic prisoners and a crooked prison officer jeopardizes the trio's plan. With time fast running out, the three inmates launch their audacious plot. But their quest for freedom doesn't go as planned and the resultant turmoil sucks the three women into a battle for survival as they seek refuge high up in the mountains. Tambu is torn between helping her friends and rescuing her daughter as she starts to question the very nature of freedom and if it's even possible to escape from the "prison" of your past.
- DirectorGodwin MawuruStarsJesesi MungoshiDominic KanaventiViolet NdlovuA classic African film that has struck a nerve that runs across the continent, with an original soundtrack and supporting performance by Zimbabwe's legendary World Music sensation, Oliver Mtukudzi.
- DirectorGodwin MawuruStarsChiyedza ChitepoStella Nekati-ChiwesheA young woman moves from the rural areas to the big city to escape Zimbabwe's independence war in the 1970s.
- DirectorIngrid SinclairStarsMarian KunongaUlla MahakaMoise MaturaThe 1970s in the former Rhodesia, today Zimbabwe: The native people are rising up against their white suppressors. As the war reaches even the most distant villages, the two friends Florence and Nyasha join the fighters and assume new names - Flame and Liberty. But the war is not as easy as they thought.
- DirectorJoe NjaguEddie SandifoloStarsFarai ChiguduDalma ChiwerevaCharity DlodloSet in 2006 amidst the diamond mining rush that started in Zimbabwe. To claim back their land, the Toropito brothers have to raise enough money to buy it back, forcing them to join the illegal diamond mining world.
- DirectorTrust SayiStarsAyanda CandicePerfect ChakarisaKudzai ChengedzaSet in Zimbabwe in 2021, Neria is married with two kids and runs her own design firm. After the untimely death of her husband, she sees her entire life and business crumble at the hands of her greedy brother-in-law. She fights back and discovers her worth again. The story is in the backdrop of the global abuse that most women face since time immemorial.
- DirectorDaves GuzhaJoe NjaguStarsEmmanuel MbrirmiHenry B.J. PhiriSarah Mpofu-SibandaIt's 2015, following the controversial July 17 legislation by the Zimbabwean government to abruptly cut off thousands of jobs, Simon has been the delivering the dreaded dismissal letters to his colleagues for weeks but when the ax finally yields on the Harare News general manager he takes the bad news very badly. The respected company executive turns into a self-made criminal. His 23 year old son has just been chased from university for non payment of tuition fees and his 25 year old mistress has just announced that she is carrying his baby.Simon turns to the bottle but does this bring his job back? Is this child really his? The story navigates through the demise of a man who had big plans after his retirement now faced with destitution and embarrassment.
- DirectorMosco KamwendoStarsKenneth KaundaGraça MachelSamora MachelA Mozambican village boy called Samora Moises Machel rises to become a daring guerrilla strategist who devotes his life to fighting colonialism in Southern African. However his colleagues become tired midway and he is killed in a plane crash in apartheid South Africa.
- DirectorTsitsi DangarembgaStarsRachel BednarFiona BellFidelis ChezaTwo teens, Tamari and Itai, are impoverished following the death of their parents when their uncle takes their plow which they need to feed themselves. While their preoccupied neighbors in the village ignore them, Itai leaves for Harare and Tamari stays behind to care for their younger brother and sister. Finally, some of the neighbors notice and come together to support the children.
- DirectorBerthold ViertelGeoffrey BarkasStarsWalter HustonOscar HomolkaBasil SydneyThis rousing adventure film tells the true story of Cecil Rhodes, a diamond miner who helped found the South African colonies.
- DirectorAlexander ButlerStarsMadge TitheradgeC.M. HallardCampbell GullanIn Rhodesia, a girl's married lover kills her cruel husband.