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A continent like no other, Africa has been the place for some of the greatest stories ever committed to film. It's unmistakable beauty and sweeping, majestic landscape appeal to filmmakers and audiences all over the world. To mark the release of Blood Diamond, a film set in 1990s Africa, we've put together a collection of our favourite African adventures.
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 | Lord Of War
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Based on actual events, this black comedy/drama stars Nicholas Cage as international arms smuggler Uri Orlov.
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 | Sahara
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Explorer Dirk Pitt sets off of a quest to discover 'The Ship Of Death', a sunken battleship which locals believe protects a secret cargo. Teaming up w...
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 | In My Country
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Noted filmmaker John Boorman ('Deliverance', 'The General', 'The Tailor Of Panama') addresses the complex emotional scars leftover from Apartheid in S...
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 | Four Feathers, The
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A re-make of the 1977 movie that tells the story of a British officer who resigns days before he is required to go into battle...
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 | Tsotsi
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Based on South African playwright Athol Fugard's only novel, TSOTSI is a thrilling, provocative look at life in the ghettos outside present-day Johann...
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 | Romancing The Stone
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A romantic novelist who flies to Columbia to help her kidnapped sister. There, she finds herself thrust into a real-life adventure with a fearless rog...
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 | Born Free - A New Adventure
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Set in the heart of Africa, Elsa the Lioness transforms the lives of two American teenagers struggling to come to terms with a family move from downto...
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 | Congo(1995)
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Based on the bestselling book by Michael Crichton, the story follows an expedition which is returning a gorilla to the wild in the hope she will lead ...
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 | Black Hawk Down
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Based on true events, this is an account of an American UN Peacekeeping Force which landed in Mogadishu, Somalia in October 1993. Their mission was to...
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