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1. Bamboozled (2000)
R | 135 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Michael Rapaport
Votes: 12,358 | Gross: $2.27M
2. Flirting (1991)
R | 99 min | Drama, Romance
Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differently.
Director: John Duigan | Stars: Noah Taylor, Thandiwe Newton, Nicole Kidman, Bartholomew Rose
Votes: 6,416 | Gross: $2.42M
3. Africa: Blood and Guts (1966)
R | 122 min | Documentary, Horror
The cruel acts of animal poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking place on the African continent.
Directors: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Stars: Sergio Rossi, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere
Votes: 1,878
4. The First Grader (2010)
PG-13 | 103 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau veteran who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
Director: Justin Chadwick | Stars: Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, Tony Kgoroge, Alfred Munyua
Votes: 4,897 | Gross: $0.33M
5. Something of Value (1957)
Approved | 113 min | Drama, War
In British Colonial Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, Peter and Kimani, who grew up together, find themselves on the opposite sides.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller, Juano Hernandez
Votes: 1,308
6. The Cross and the Switchblade (1970)
GP | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Long before faith-based films became a regular feature of mainstream movie theaters, there was "The Cross and The Switchblade," the story of Pastor David Wilkerson and gang member Nicky Cruz.
Director: Don Murray | Stars: Pat Boone, Erik Estrada, Jacqueline Giroux, Jo-Ann Robinson
Votes: 1,217 | Gross: $0.41M
7. Safari (1956)
Approved | 90 min | Adventure
During 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.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, John Justin, Roland Culver
Votes: 671
8. Simba (1955)
Not Rated | 99 min | Adventure, Drama
A 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.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Virginia McKenna, Basil Sydney, Donald Sinden
Votes: 470
9. The Kitchen Toto (1987)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama
The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
Director: Harry Hook | Stars: Bob Peck, Edwin Mahinda, Phyllis Logan, Nicholas Charles
Votes: 274 | Gross: $0.10M
10. The Oath (2005)
Not Rated | 23 min | Drama, Short
In present-day Kenya, the legacy of the Mau Mau is kept alive, never to be forgotten.
Director: Nathan Collett | Stars: Gary Cattermole, George Maina Gakiri, Joseph Kimani, Simon J. Smithers
Votes: 17
11. Empire Warriors (2004– )
240 min | Documentary, History, War
A series examining military campaigns in the last years of the British Empire.
Stars: Michael Pennington, Joey Jeetun, Ng'ang'a Kirumburu, Davina Leonard
Votes: 18
12. Africa Adventure (1954)
Approved | 64 min | Documentary
A true film account of a three-month safari in the big game hunting areas of the Dark Continent, undoctored with any faked plot or contrivance.
Director: Robert C. Ruark | Stars: Robert C. Ruark, Harry Selby, John Sutton, Andrew Holmberg
Votes: 9
13. Enough is Enough (2005)
Drama, War
Director: Kibaara Kaugi | Stars: Jens Karsholt, Gatonye Mbugua, Similicious Wangare
14.
Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1955–1956)
Episode:
Perilous Journey
(1955)
Adventure
When 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... See full summary »
Stars: Irish McCalla, Christian Drake, Milton Reddi, Virgil Richardson
15.
My Grandparents' War (2019– )
Episode:
Emeli Sandé
(2022)
Documentary, Biography, History
The singer Emeli Sandé explores her grandparents' stories, including the fight for independence in Africa
Votes: 15