Gents:

Can you add to this list of Africa movies? No hunting videos, just Hollywood films or good documentary type films. Here is what I have (not is any special order):

Hollywood films:
King Solomon’s Mines---------------1937, 1950, 1985, 2003
Snows of Kilimanjaro-----------------1952, 1960, 2011
Mogambo------------------------------1953
Macomber Affair-----------------------1947
Hatari------------------------------------1962
Africa Screams-------------------------1949
Last Safari-------------------------------1967
White Hunter/Black Heart------------1990
Naked Prey-----------------------------1966
African Queen--------------------------1951
Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan---------11 films 1932-1948
Johnny Weissmuller Jungle Jim----14 films 1949-1955
Tarzan with Buster Crabbe, Gordon Scott, and more--silent era to 1950s
I Dreamed of Africa-------------------2000
Zulu Dawn------------------------------1979
Ghost and the Darkness------------1996
Trader Horn----------------------------1931, 1973
Zulu--------------------------------------1964
Blood Diamond-----------------------2006



Some documentaries:
In the Blood----------------------------------------------1989
Maneaters of Tasvo------------------------------------1996
Robert Ruark’s African Adventure-------------------1958
Martin & Osa Johnson’s Congorilla------------------1932
Martin & Osa Johnson’s Bride of the Beast-------1932


Cheers,
Cal

"Out of Africa"................1985

This is great Cal, thanks.

Something Of Value, book written by Ruark, Rock Hudson & Sydney Portier starred in the movie.

"Safari" with Victor Mature & Janet Leigh.
Watched Trader Horn last nite. Think I'll watch "Safari"tonite.
Isn't DVR great?

Thanks guys. I look forward to more. I do have Out of Africa. I forgot to type it in. In the older films, you will see lots of double rifles--most so in the first 5 Tarzan films with Johnny Weissmuller.
Cheers,
Cal

Gorillas in the Mist.
Hotel Rwanda.
Raid on Entebbe.
Cry Freedom.
A Dry White Season.
Lord of War.
District 9.
Blackhawk Down.
Lawrance of Arabia.
Congo.
Sahara.
The Last King of Scotland.
Kartoum.
Casablanca.
The Four Feathers.
Ishtar.
The Gods Must Be Crazy.
Lion King!

Hot dam, Todd you are a walking encyclopedia.

Mike

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Originally posted by retreever:
Hot dam, Todd you are a walking encyclopedia.

Mike

I just watch way too many movies!

I forgot about "The gods Must be Crazy"
That 1 was funny.

Nowhere in Africa is a fantastic movie that takes place in Kenya.

Wild Geese

A couple of more recent ones, neither have anything to do with hunting:

Invictus
The Bang-Bang Club

Faith Like Potatoes

The Ten Commandments.
Primeval ... 2007.
Attack on Darfur.

Born Free.
To Walk with Lions.
Mandela and De Klerk.

It always amazes my wife whenever she comes in the trophy room and I have another obscure movie about Africa playing.

I'm afraid you guys forgot a real biggie -

"The Dogs Of War" with Christopher Walken

And if we've broadened it to include anything that's a real good movie and has significant scenes in South Africa -

"Endless Summer"- that's right, the surfing flick. You have the beaches, the locals learning to surf, and iirc they had to get out of the way of some wildlife while driving to the ocean.

Anyway, my personal favorite movies set in Africa were Zulu and the three Bogie films. The best part of Zulu was the two sides singing at each other before the battle.

Thanks, guys.
When the posts die down I will assemble an alpha list and post it for your information. Even though one of my favorites is The Wind and the Lion with Sean Connery, I will leave out Egyptian and north African films as I feel, as Ian Smith of Southern Rhodesia wrote, north Africa should be more correctly be termed western Arabia. I will get to this later in the week or perhaps after I return from an arctic caribou hunt beginning on the 25th.
Thanks again for your contributions.
Cal

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Originally posted by BaxterB:
Nowhere in Africa is a fantastic movie that takes place in Kenya.

No calling it fantastic, but the Ascent takes place in Kenya.
Lots of movies about the war or with war themes in Africa.
Frank

Some of these are a bit of a stretch (The Ten Commandments, Lawrance of Arabia) ... but if you're casting the net that wide, you have to include Patton ... and how about Roots?

On a hunch I looked up something in Wiki. And found this, about films depicting in some form or fashion The Man Eaters Of Tsavo -

"Patterson's book was the basis for the movies Bwana Devil in 1952 and The Ghost and the Darkness in 1996, with the incidents also used in 1959's Killers of Kilimanjaro. The names "The Ghost" and "The Darkness" were names given to the two man-eating lions."

Make what use of it you like...it's certainly Africa..

And don't forget Stanley and Livingstone with Spencer Tracy as Stanley.

This one's a MUST: one of the most interesting, unusual, and revealing documentaries ever made about Africa: Africa Addio

Living Free - followup to Born Free.

24:Redemption

Lethal Weapon 2 - there were evil South Africans in it, and if you're going to allow Lawrence of Arabia, you might as well allow it

I don't remember the title but seem to remember an old movie (possibly) starring John Wayne about cowboys setting up a game capture operation in Africa.

If I remember correctly, they used old Champs, Land Rovers & Willys Jeeps to chase the game down & also that Ken Stewart (now of Stewart Bullets) who about that time had a game capture operation was involved in it.

Don't forget "Blood Diamond"

Ok guys what about Africa Texas Style???? Remember...believe Hugh O'Brian...

"Shout at the Devil" with Lee Marvn based on a Wilbur Smith book about WWI in Africa.

Zulu Wars - Documentary - Shaka, Blood River and Red Coat, Black Blood
Shaka Zulu - 10 part Mini series of Shaka's life

Breaker Morant

Not really a movie all though a few "movies" were made from it. This goes bach to when I was 4 or 5 years old but google "Ramar of the Jungle". I still vaguely remember watching that. Some of the episodes were filmed in India.

Tsotsi
Jerusalema

"Shooting Dogs" 2005 - Rwanda during the murders
"Lumumba" - 2000 - French? - story about Patrice Lumumba, the President of Congo before Mobutu. Left wing propaganda bias in the film

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Originally posted by tendrams:
http://forums.accuratereloadin...311071801#4311071801

I won't bother re-typing my list from last time.

Sands of the Kalahari-1964? Stewart Whitman

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Originally posted by shakari:
I don't remember the title but seem to remember an old movie (possibly) starring John Wayne about cowboys setting up a game capture operation in Africa.

If I remember correctly, they used old Champs, Land Rovers & Willys Jeeps to chase the game down & also that Ken Stewart (now of Stewart Bullets) who about that time had a game capture operation was involved in it.

'HATARI'....one old codger remembers

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Originally posted by fujotupu:
'HATARI'....one old codger remembers

That's it....... I really am a silly old sod at times!

If anyone wants to go onto recordings rather than movies, there's Day Of The Dead Moon by David Rattray that tells the story of the Zulu Wars in a very dramatic manner.

Bernhard Grzimek's Oscar Award Winner: "Serengeti Shall Not Die"

All the documentaries by ALAN ROOT of which there are too many to list but here are some:

- "Mysterious Castles of Clay"
- "The Big Cats"
- "The Year of the Wildebeest"
- "Portrait of a Spring"
- "Lights, Action, Africa"
- "Legend of the Lightening Bird"

Steve:

Were they not using a Dodge Power Wagon to chase and noose?