TROUBLES IN AFRICA

Filmed in Liberia, child soldiers fighting a war in an African country

20 year civil war veteran returns to the capital of Luanda, Angola

A child escaping the civil war finds himself in trouble in the bitter political situation in Angola after the war

A woman offers four girls protection from female genital mutilation and has to face male power and deeply-rooted tradition

Civil war in Chad

Civil war in Chad makes life harder for a 55 year old man

Elite troops from Germany fight in eastern Congo; a military policewoman discovers a heinous crime in a rough war

3 DVD mini-series; a well-meaning colonial official working in a jungle district of the Belgian Congo in the waning years of white colonial rule has a rough times governing because of the many problems he faces; it gets worse when the call goes out for independence

A young girl is trained to fight in one of Eritrea's liberation armies in the struggle for independence from Ethiopia; became independent in 1993

1700, the pirates of Madagascar menace the India trade (with Errol Flynn)

Rebellion against the French leads to Madagascar's independence

In 1940 in Timbuktu in French West Africa (today's Mali) the French have to fight off a Taureg rebellion

Timbuktu residents lead quiet lives, but they are suddenly disturbed by Jihadists determined to control their faith

A boy makes a journey to find his own family in the turmoil of the Mozambican Civil War (1977-1992)

Twin sisters from a wealthy Nigerian family take wildly different paths in life, but both become swept up in the struggle to establish Biafra as a republic independent of Nigeria

1994 Rwanda genocide

1994 Rwanda genocide

True story of a Catholic priest and an English teacher caught in the 1994 Rwandan genocide

The failure of the west to stop the genocide in Rwanda

A woman faces the horrors stemming from the Rwandan genocide

Short film of the true story of the Rwandan school students who risked everything to protect each other

Interwoven stories of different people have to deal with the horrible events of the Rwanda genocide

Two friends in Rwanda are split by the warning "Hutus and Tutsis are supposed to be enemies"

The Hutu in Rwanda go on a genocidal rage against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Civil war in Sierra Leone fueled by the money from the diamond trade