A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony (2009)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 1時間 27分
演出 : Donald McWilliams
シノプシス
A look at the Mau Mau Rebellion of the 1950s as experienced by filmmaker Donald McWilliams.
レイフ・ファインズ主演の社会派サスペンス。ナイロビに駐留する英国外交官ジャスティンは、慈善活動に熱心な妻を殺されてしまう。その後、彼は独自に調査を開始。やがて薬物実験や汚職など、多国籍企業による陰謀が浮き彫りになっていく。
19世紀のアフリカで実際に起きた事件をもとにした動物パニック映画。“ゴースト”と“ダークネス”と呼ばれた、2頭の人食いライオンにマイケル・ダグラス扮する凄腕のハンターが挑む。
留置所の檻の中と思しき場所で目を覚ました男は、自分が何者なのかも思い出せない記憶喪失になっていることに気付く。隣の独房には女がおり、「我々は侵略された」と言う。ひょんなことから、自分がアメリカ軍の兵士だったらしいことがわかり、医師だという女とともに檻の外に出ることができた男だったが、そこには見たこともないロボットが人々を襲う光景が広がっていた。
20世紀初頭のアフリカを舞台に、愛と冒険に生きたひとりの女の半生を描いた一大ロマンス。スウェーデン貴族と結婚し、ケニアに渡って来たデンマーク人の令嬢カレン。だがそこには幸せな結婚生活は無く、農場経営も思うように進まない。そんな彼女の前にサファリのガイドを務めている冒険家が現れた……。アカデミー賞7部門受賞。
Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.
On the beaches of Kenya they're known as "Sugar Mamas" -- European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise. She goes from one Beach Boy to the next, from one disappointment to the next and finally she must recognize: On the beaches of Kenya love is a business.
The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. However, when the animal is captured by poachers planning to race it against greyhounds, the two city kids, together with a young African goat herder they befriended, head off into the wild to rescue the cheetah.
A family in Africa is besieged by a group of lions, driven to desperation by the drought.
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.
A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband.
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda.
When Elsa's three mischievious cubs begin wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.
Mwas, a young aspiring actor from upcountry Kenya dreams of becoming an accomplished actor one day, and in pursuit of this, he makes his way to Nairobi, the city of opportunity. He quickly understands why Nairobi is nicknamed Nairrobery as he is bereaved of all his money and belongings and left alone in a city where he doesn’t know a soul. Luck or the lack of it brings Mwas face to face with the city’s criminals and forms a friendship with a small time crook who takes him in. He is quickly drawn into a world of crime as he struggles to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. Keeping the two worlds separate proves to be a challenge for Mwas as he steps into this unknown world called Nairobi.
There's a big drought in Africa. Food and water are scarce. 90,000 wild baboons suddenly start attacking humans and eating them in order to survive. Some people find themselves being hunted by the starving monkeys and must do whatever they can to stay alive.
A landowner in colonial Africa leads a safari through Nukumbi territory in order to capture an escaped criminal.
The real-life adventure of a dashing Italian soldier who escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp because he dreams of climbing 17,000-foot Mt. Kenya and planting the Italian flag at the summit. The obsessive British camp commander pursues him, and the two men are locked in a battle of wills, fuelled by honor and their love for the same woman.
Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are reinforced when it is revealed that her daughter's best friend in the whole world is a fully grown lion. Worried that her daughter may be turning into a savage, she sends for her former husband, Tina's biological father, in the hope that he can take her back to civilization (in this case rural Connecticut). But it seems as though Tina's mother wants something more than a civilized upbringing for her daughter.
Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is away, and they find themselves adopted by three orphan elephants.