Lumumba (2000)
Gênero : Drama, História
Runtime : 1H 55M
Director : Raoul Peck
Sinopse
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.
Marcado pelo suicídio do pai, jovem ingressa em sociedade secreta na universidade e depois vira agente de inteligência do governo americano. Mas, para obter sucesso no trabalho, acaba sacrificando a vida pessoal e a família.
Médica acompanha pai e filho que querem fazer um documentário durante uma viagem ao Congo. Lá, eles descobrem criaturas que pensavam ter sido extintas... dinossauros. Agora, com uma câmera na mão para documentar tudo, eles lutam para sobreviver.
Grupo de exploradores, que inclui um professor, uma expert em eletrônica, um guia e um aventureiro, viaja para o Congo por diversos motivos. Um deles é devolver a inteligente e brincalhona gorila Ammy para o seu habitat natural. Seguindo os passos do animal que está voltando para casa, eles estão prestes a descobrir um perigo até então desconhecido na cidade perdida de Zinj, no coração da selva.
O African Queen é o pequeno, mas estimado, barco de Charlie (Humphrey Bogart). Durante a Primeira Guerra, na selvagem África, ele assume a responsabilidade de levar a irmã do recém-falecido reverendo Samuel, Rose (Katharine Hepburn), para a civilização, através do rio, utilizando o barco. Mas existem dois problemas: Rose e Charlie não combinam em nada e as margens do rio estão cheias de alemães.
No Congo, 150 soldados da ONU defendem uma pequena cidade do ataque de três mil mercenários por dias a fio. Baseado em fatos reais.
A luta da antropóloga americana Dian Fossey (Sigourney Weaver), que em 1967 viajou para Ruanda, na África, e durante toda a vida se dedicou à preservação dos gorilas da montanha, ameaçados de extinção em razão da caça indiscriminada. Dian utilizou todos os meios possíveis para protegê-los e esta luta se tornou uma paixão tão obssessiva que nem mesmo Bob Campbell (Bryan Brown), seu namorado fotógrafo, consegue demovê-la do seu objetivo. Dian faz tudo que é possível para impedir que atrocidades contra os animais sejam cometidas.
Em 1930, o jovem Gabrielle Van der Mal entra em um convento em sua Bélgica natal para se tornar uma freira. Quase imediatamente, ela tem dificuldade para se ajustar à vida de clausura, e seu votos de pobreza, castidade e obediência. Ela duvida a sua própria capacidade, mesmo quando ela faz seus votos perpétuos. Gabrielle, agora chamada de Irmã Luke, se destaca em seus estudos médicos e sonhos de servir no Congo Belga.
Conheça a história verídica dos guardas que arriscam a vida para proteger o parque nacional mais precioso da África e seus gorilas em risco de extinção.
A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
Sexual violence against women is a very effective weapon in modern warfare: instills fear and spreads the seed of the victorious side, an outrageous method that is useful to exterminate the defeated side by other means. This use of women, both their bodies and their minds, as a battleground, was crucial for international criminal tribunals to begin to judge rape as a crime against humanity.
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
“In the beginning, women lived apart, unaware of the existence of men. Until one day, when the first woman, Toli, who was brave and adventurous traveled deep into the forest. Toli discovered solitary creatures with big muscles who knew how to climb trees and harvest wild honey. When Toli tasted their honey, she thought they should all live together….” That is how one of the creation stories of the Aka people from the tropical rainforest of the Congo Basin goes. Akaya, Kengole, Dibota and their friends and family are hunters-gatherers (and also great story-tellers) who guide us through their world. They explain their origins, myths, and the very spiritual meaning of life.
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.
A documentary about the end of the colonial era in Africa, portraying acts of animal poaching, violence, executions, and tribal slaughter.
Documentary about African political leader Patrice Lumumba, who was Prime Minister of Zaire (now Congo) when he was assassinated in 1961.
Em 1978, um militar francês prepara-se para abandonar o posto no Zaire quando combatentes armados invadem a cidade mineira, fazendo 3000 reféns civis.
An investigation of the emotional and economic value of Africa's most lucrative export: filmed poverty. Deep in the interiors of the Congo, Dutch artist Renzo Martens single-handedly undertakes an epic journey and launches an emancipatory program that helps the poor become aware of what is their primary capital resource: Poverty. After three years of traveling through the Democratic Republic of the Congo he asks the question: "Who owns poverty?
Lao Yang is head of logistics of the group. He is responsible for the equipment, building materials and food (mainly chickens) to arrive in the isolated Chinese prefab camp. The Congolese government was supposed to deliver these things but so far the team hasn't received anything. With Eddy (a Congolese man who speaks Mandarin fluently) as an intermediate, Lao Yang is forced to leave the camp and deal with local Congolese entrepreneurs, because without the construction materials the road works will cease. What follows is an endless, harsh, but absurdly funny roller coaster of negotiations and misunderstandings, as Lao Yang learns about the Congolese way of making deals.
In urban America, the bush of Africa, the war zone of the Congo, and in closed nations there are women who are living outside their own cultures, society, and comfort level to care for orphans, build schools, liberate addicts, feed the poor, and love the broken. These ordinary women are reaching into hopeless situations of people and creating hope.
Documentary about the inhabitants, both human and animal, of the Belgian Congo. Released in 1958.
