Movies set in post-Colonial Africa?
 

Other than Black Hawk Down, Todesspiel, Blood Diamond and The Last King of Scotland, what are some other movies that focus on social/political instability in post-Colonial Africa?

Tsotsi, Catch a Fire, The Constant Gardener, Hotel Rwanda.

I had posted "Cry Freedom," but it sounds like you're more interested in African civil-wars-type movies from reading your post. Does apartheid-era South Africa count? I'm sure there are other movies with that setting, but I can't think of other titles.

Lord of War does to a to a degree.

Stander is the correct answer.

Africa Addio

Battle of Algiers

Sounds like a good list to get me started. Thank you!

The Lion King.

New Jack City

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Tears Of The Sun.

= J

Lumumba. Good example of neocolonialism in an ugly overlooked event in history.

Shake Hands With the Devil, based on the book by Romeo Dallaire, the character Nick Nolte was very loosely based on in Hotel Rwanda.

Start with the films of Ousmane Sembene:

Selected filmography

* Borom Sarret (1963)
* Niaye (1964)
* La Noire de... (1966)
* Mandabi (1968)
* Xala (1974)
* Ceddo (1977)
* Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
* Guelwaar (1992)
* Faat Kiné (2000)
* Moolaadé (2004)

(Copied from Wikipedia for expediency's sake.)

The movie version of Sahara (2005) was a complete waste of time but it was set in post-Colonial Africa

Black & White In Color
Coup de Torchon

dry white season w/ donald sutherland? apartheid FTL!