Mau Mau Uprising
Mau Mau Uprising in 1952–1960. 'Mau Mau Revolt', 'Mau Mau Rebellion', 'Kenya Emergency'. Uprising of several Kenyan tribes against British domination.
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- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsDirk BogardeVirginia McKennaBasil SydneyA European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsVictor MatureJanet LeighJohn JustinDuring the Mau Mau Uprising in British Kenya in the 1950s, settler-hunter Ken Duffield is a hired guide for a lion hunting party but he also hopes to find the Mau Mau rebel who killed his family.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsRock HudsonDana WynterWendy HillerIn British Colonial Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, Peter and Kimani, who grew up together, find themselves on the opposite sides.
- DirectorHarry HookStarsBob PeckEdwin MahindaPhyllis LoganThe son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
- StarsIrish McCallaChristian DrakeMilton ReddiWhen a native chief returns to his village and finds it destroyed and his family abducted, against the advice of Bob and Sheena, he attempts to rescue his wife and son and avenge himself on the perpetrators. Captured by his enemies, he is forced to spy on their behalf or his family will be executed - unless Sheena can free the chief's loved ones.
- DirectorMike VardyStarsDerren NesbittFulton MackayMorris PerryAn ex-colonial policeman is pressured to return to Africa to testify at the trial of a onetime Mau-Mau warlord, but he adamantly refuses.
- DirectorAmirah M. TajdinStarsAshford KirimiRuth MaingiNjeri MukomaHIS TO KEEP is a short film about the consequences of Kenya's fight for freedom as seen through the heart broken words of a Mau Mau veteran who feels he lost more than he won during the struggle.
- DirectorAmit TyagiStarsTom AlterTonny Ernest NjugunaMehul SavaniIn 1954, in Kenya, 2 MAU MAU fighters seek shelter in an ASIAN shopkeepers house for the night. This movie is about what happens in the interaction between them through the night
- DirectorNathan CollettStarsGary CattermoleGeorge Maina GakiriJoseph KimaniIn present-day Kenya, the legacy of the Mau Mau is kept alive, never to be forgotten.
- DirectorSergio DowStarsAlbert FinneyPaul GuilfoyleFele MartínezDuring the Kenyan struggle for independence from the British in the late 1950s, a scientific safari led by Ernest Hemingway undertakes the ascent of Mount Kenya. Hemingway has been warned by Kikuyu tribe members not to violate the sacred laws of Mwene-Nyaga, the mountain's god, by harming the elephants which ascend its peaks because it will lead to self-destruction, as any aggression against against nature is an act of suicide. The expeditions consists of the author, Alex Smith, British police commissioner, Renata, the photographer and Hemingway's lover, Antonio, Hemingway's godson, a Spanish biologist and frustrated bullfighter, Kamau, a Kikuyu tribe member who secretly fights for Kenya's independence with the Mau-Mau rebels. The expedition's progress is impeded as political and personal forces collide and Hemingway comes face-to-face with his final destiny in facing the decision to shoot the Sacred Mammoth who roams the highest peaks of Mount Kenya.
- DirectorJosé PinheiroStarsAlain DelonAnouchka DelonOrnella MutiIn Africa in the fifties, during the Mau-Mau war, young Patricia's friendship with a lion she raised for years.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsCornel WildeDonna ReedLeo GennAn American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.