The Bang Bang Club

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 22 Apr 2011 · English

In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.

The Lost City of Z

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 15 Mar 2017 · English

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

Blood Diamond

Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 8 Dec 2006 · English

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

The Killing Fields

Movie · 7.5 / 10 · 23 Nov 1984 · English

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.

Jungle

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 27 Jun 2017 · English

In 1981, an enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Bolivian Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past. Their journey quickly turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wilderness lead to an all-out fight for survival.

Sometimes in April

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 17 Feb 2005 · English

Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Shooting Dogs

Movie · 7.5 / 10 · 8 Mar 2006 · English

Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.

Wild

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 5 Dec 2014 · English

A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Papillon

Movie · 7.8 / 10 · 16 Dec 1973 · English

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Under Fire

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 21 Oct 1983 · English

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

Cass

Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 8 Jan 2008 · English

The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain.

The Siege of Jadotville

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 19 Sept 2016 · English

Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.