Africa (South of the Sahara) Films at Ames Public Library
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Born Free (VIDEO FAMILY BOR) 95 min. 1995.
Joy Adamson and her husband, Kenya game warden George Adamson, raise Elsa, a lion cub. When Elsa is grown, Joy determines she must re-educate Elsa to living in the wild so that the lioness can return to a free life.
Cry Freedom (VIDEO DRAMA CRY) 157 min. 1988.
Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) is chief editor at the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko (Denzel Washington). When Biko dies in police custody, Woods writes a book about him, and the only way to get it published is for Woods to illegally escape the country.
Cry, the Beloved Country (VIDEO DRAMA CRY) 100 min. 1992.
A South-African preacher searches for his son who committed a crime in the city. Starring James Earl Jones and Richard Harris.
Duma (DVD FAMILY DUM) 100 min. 2005.
Xan is a 12-year-old living in South Africa with his parents when they find an abandoned baby cheetah. They name it the Swahili word for cheetah, Duma. Duma grows too big to stay domesticated, and Dad tells the boy they will have to take Duma home to set him free. But illness intervenes and Xan must take Duma on his own to set him free. Based on the children's picture book/memoir How It Was with Dooms by Xan and Carol Cawthra Hopcraft.
Final Solution (DVD DRAMA FIN) 107 min. 2002.
In South Africa, Gerrit Wolfaardt has been taught that blacks are a cancer in the land. He develops a plan to rid “his” country of its "black danger." Before his plans can be carried out, he meets Celeste (Liezel van der Merwe), an open-minded University student, and Peter Lekota (John Kani), a pastor who challenges Gerrit's prejudice.
Four Feathers (DVD ACTION FOU) 130 min. 2002.
This lavish remake of a 1939 swashbuckler is based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason. It’s the story of the disgrace and redemption of a British regimental officer, starring Heath Ledger and Kate Hudson.
The Ghost and the Darkness (DVD ACTION GHO) 110 min. 1998.
This is based on the true story of two African lions Africa that killed 130 people over nine months in 1898, before a bridge engineer (Val Kilmer) and an experienced hunter (Michael Douglas) bring them down. The actual lions are on display in the Field Museum in Chicago.
Gorillas in the Mist (DVD DRAMA GOR) 129 min.
This is the true story of Dian Fossey’s (Signourney Weaver) study of gorillas and her efforts to stop the decimation of the endangered apes.
The Gods Must Be Crazy I & II (DVD COMEDY GOD) 205 min. 2004.
A native, Sho, who lives in the Kalahari Desert, encounters technology for the first time – in the shape of a Coke bottle. He takes it back to his people, and they use it for many tasks. When the people start to fight over it, he decides to return it to God – where he thinks it came from. In the sequel, Sho’s children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, and he must rescue them.
Hotel Rwanda (DVD DRAMA HOT) 112 min. 2004.
Don Cheadle stars in the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.
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