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During the 1970s there was a global call to action in various spheres of the lives of women with the evolution of universal women's rights movement, the development of second-wave feminism, the emergence of the Senegal-based bilingual feminist research group the Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD), and the ...
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) – British historical drama film based on the libel and subsequent criminal cases involving Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry [35] Two Women (Italian: La ciociara) (1960) – Italian war drama film based on actual events of 1944 in Rome and rural Lazio, during the Marocchinate [36]
The movie was the first based upon a book written by an African-American writer. [10] Free State of Jones: 2016: Disenchanted confederate soldiers rally with runaway slaves to establish an abolitionist colony in Mississippi, led by Newton Knight, who fathers a child with a black woman. That story is framed by the one of his great-grandsons, who ...
Some African countries suffer a lack of freedom of speech, that undermine the film industry. This is specially severe in Equatorial Guinea. [48] The feature film The Writer From a Country Without Bookstores [49] is the first to be shot in the country and critic with Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo's dictatorship, one of the longest lasting in the ...
The film is based on Mary Crow Dog's autobiography Lakota Woman, wherein she accounts her involvement with the American Indian Movement and relationship with Lakota medicine man and activist Leonard Crow Dog. The Lion Has Seven Heads: 1970 In the late 1960s, a white preacher in Africa fights a Latin American revolutionary. Lion of the Desert: 1981
Africa Addio (lit. ' Goodbye Africa ' or ' Farewell Africa '; also known as Africa: Blood and Guts in the United States and Farewell Africa in the United Kingdom) is a 1966 Italian mondo documentary film co-directed, co-edited and co-written by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco E. Prosperi with music by Riz Ortolani.
Katrina is a 1969 South African drama film directed by Jans Rautenbach and starring Katinka Heyns, Jill Kirkland and Don Leonard. [1] Based on a play called Try for White by Basil Warner, the film depicts the lives of a family of a Coloured South Africans, who in the apartheid system are considered neither white nor black, in which Katrina, the daughter, attempts to appear white, before her ...
Darkest Africa; David Livingstone (film) The Dead (2010 film) Death Drums Along the River; Desert Sands; The Desired Woman; Devil Goddess; The Dictator (2012 film) Dingaka; Disarmament Conference (film) The Dogs of War (film) Dough for the Do-Do; Dreaming (1944 British film) Drums of Africa