History – AMDB.tv https://amdb.tv African Movie Database Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:18:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://amdb.tv/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-AFRIMOV-LOGO-favicon-only-01-32x32.png History – AMDB.tv https://amdb.tv 32 32 Enchained https://amdb.tv/movie/enchained/ https://amdb.tv/movie/enchained/#respond Wed, 27 May 2020 21:58:57 +0000 https://amdb.tv/movie/enchained/ In this lush historical drama set in 1916 Ethiopia, Gobeze is a timid, peace-loving literature student who has dedicated his life to studying Sem Ina Werq — riddles with dual meaning. After spending years searching for his first love, Aleme, who was abducted seven years earlier, he finally finds her married to Gonite, a wealthy judge and landlord. When Gonite catches the two reunited lovers, a fight ensues. Following tradition, the feuding men are bound together, and, side by side, must make the long journey to stand trial in the royal court.

]]> https://amdb.tv/movie/enchained/feed/ 0 The White Line https://amdb.tv/movie/the-white-line/ https://amdb.tv/movie/the-white-line/#respond Wed, 27 May 2020 21:46:37 +0000 https://amdb.tv/movie/the-white-line/ Framed by scenes of Namibia’s formal independence as a newly formed African country in 1990, Desiree Kahikopo’s historical romance takes us back to 1963, soon after the 1959 uprising in Old Location — an area segregated for black residents of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia (then a territory of South Africa). It is in this setting that Sylvia Kamutjemo (Girley Charlene Jazama, who also produces), a black domestic worker, meets Afrikaner police officer Pieter de Wet (Jan-Barend Scheepers) on a routine passbook check. As the pair exchange letters and a story of forbidden love across racial lines unfolds, Kahikopo explores an underrepresented period of Namibian history with compassion and hope.

]]> https://amdb.tv/movie/the-white-line/feed/ 0 Africa Rising https://amdb.tv/movie/africa-rising/ https://amdb.tv/movie/africa-rising/#respond Mon, 18 May 2020 23:16:16 +0000 https://amdb.tv/movie/africa-rising/ How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a nicer portrait of this amazing continent, historically known for tragic subjects, such as slavery, famine, war and political chaos.

]]> https://amdb.tv/movie/africa-rising/feed/ 0 Natal 71 https://amdb.tv/movie/natal-71/ https://amdb.tv/movie/natal-71/#respond Mon, 18 May 2020 21:20:38 +0000 https://amdb.tv/movie/natal-71/ Memories of a fascist dictatorship, memories of a country closed to the world.

]]> https://amdb.tv/movie/natal-71/feed/ 0 The Nine Muses https://amdb.tv/movie/the-nine-muses/ https://amdb.tv/movie/the-nine-muses/#respond Wed, 25 Mar 2020 08:57:50 +0000 https://amdb.tv/movie/the-nine-muses/ Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the story of immigrant experience coming into the UK from 1960 onwards.

]]> https://amdb.tv/movie/the-nine-muses/feed/ 0 El Jaïda https://amdb.tv/movie/el-jaida-jeyda/ https://amdb.tv/movie/el-jaida-jeyda/#respond Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:30:48 +0000 https://amdb.tv/movie/el-jaida-jeyda/ Four women meet at Dar Joued on the eve of Independence. With different ages and social conditions, they are condemned to live together under the authority and injustice of their jailer: “El Jaida”. They will share memories of the outside world, joy, emotions and distress of their daily lives.

]]> https://amdb.tv/movie/el-jaida-jeyda/feed/ 0 Lumumba https://amdb.tv/movie/lumumba/ https://amdb.tv/movie/lumumba/#respond Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:14:33 +0000 https://amdb.tv/movie/lumumba/ The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba’s own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.

]]> https://amdb.tv/movie/lumumba/feed/ 0 Badamasi (Portrait of a General) https://amdb.tv/movie/badamasi-portrait-of-a-general/ https://amdb.tv/movie/badamasi-portrait-of-a-general/#respond Mon, 17 Feb 2020 21:54:20 +0000 https://amdb.tv/?post_type=movie&p=20336 Based on real events, Badamasi follows the life of a Nigerian Army General who rules the country during a time rife with tribalism and ethnic tensions

]]> The movie is based on real events that occurred during General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s regime as a military head of state in Nigeria between 1985 and 1993.

]]> https://amdb.tv/movie/badamasi-portrait-of-a-general/feed/ 0 The Square https://amdb.tv/movie/the-square/ https://amdb.tv/movie/the-square/#respond Sun, 19 Jan 2020 11:40:09 +0000 https://amdb.tv/movie/the-square/ What does it mean to risk your life for your ideals? How far will five revolutionaries go in defending their beliefs in the fight for their nation?

]]> The Square is both the first Kickstarter (crowd-funded) film to be nominated for an Oscar

It is also the first film by Netflix to receive an Oscar nomination.

The Square is the fourth original documentary released by Netflix.

]]> https://amdb.tv/movie/the-square/feed/ 0 The State Against Mandela and the Others https://amdb.tv/movie/the-state-against-mandela-and-the-others/ https://amdb.tv/movie/the-state-against-mandela-and-the-others/#respond Mon, 16 Dec 2019 21:00:55 +0000 https://amdb.tv/movie/the-state-against-mandela-and-the-others/ South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country house near Johannesburg. The detainees, along with Nelson Mandela, imprisoned since 1962, are charged with serious crimes —and threatened with the death penalty— for their radical activism against the apartheid regime.

]]> South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country house near Johannesburg. The detainees, along with Nelson Mandela, imprisoned since 1962, are charged with serious crimes —and threatened with the death penalty— for their radical activism against the apartheid regime.

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