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  • Jamie Dornan in The Siege of Jadotville (2016)

    1. The Siege of Jadotville

    20161h 48mTV-MA
    7.2 (47K)
    Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.
    DirectorRichie SmythStarsJamie DornanEmmanuelle SeignerMark Strong
  • Lumumba (2000)

    2. Lumumba

    20001h 55mNot Rated78Metascore
    7.2 (2.2K)
    The true story of controversial leader of independent Congo Patrice Lumumba.
    DirectorRaoul PeckStarsEriq EbouaneyAlex DescasMaka Kotto
  • Black Sun (1971)

    3. Black Sun

    19711h 43m
    5.5 (22)
    The life and death of Robert Moussombe, the leader of an unnamed African state. Moussombe is a fictionalized portrait of assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, and the film's events are a pastiche of the Congo Crisis in 1960s.
    DirectorAleksei SpeshnyovStarsRein ArenBob Chuprov-TsymbaMbissine Thérèse Diop
  • Giuseppe Bennati, Carmine Bologna, Gabriele Ferzetti, Jean Seberg, and Bachir Touré in Eruption (1962)

    4. Eruption

    19621h 38m
    6.9 (25)
    In Congo during the revolution, an Italian journalist is in love with the wife of a Belgian businessman.
    DirectorGiuseppe BennatiStarsGabriele FerzettiJean SebergCarla Bizzarri
  • The Last Grenade (1970)

    5. The Last Grenade

    19701h 34mM
    5.3 (254)
    Two soldiers of fortune, Harry Grigsby and Kip Thompson, used to be the best of friends when they fought side by side in the Congo. But now Kip has changed sides and Grigsby does not forgive him for what he regards as a betrayal, all the more as Thompson now turns his guns against Grigsby's troops and, accordingly, against his former friend. While he is London recovering from tuberculosis, Grigsby is assigned a new mission that he gladly accepts: to eliminate Thompson, now in Hong Kong causing tensions with neighboring China by creating border incidents.
    DirectorGordon FlemyngStarsStanley BakerAlex CordHonor Blackman
  • Woody Strode in Black Jesus (1968)

    6. Black Jesus

    19681h 29mGP
    6.6 (354)
    Rebel Maurice Lalubi is arrested by the military on trumped up charges and tortured, which turns him into a martyr. Inspired by the final days of the first democratic Congolese leader, Patrice Lumumba.
    DirectorValerio ZurliniStarsWoody StrodeFranco CittiJean Servais
  • Alain Delon, Joanna Shimkus, and Lino Ventura in The Last Adventure (1967)

    7. The Last Adventure

    19671h 52mM
    7.0 (4.3K)
    Best friends become aware of a crashed plane lying on the bottom of the ocean, allegedly stuffed with wealth. Adventurers set off in search of prey. And along with them, Letizia is linked, with whom both friends are secretly in love.
    DirectorRobert EnricoStarsAlain DelonLino VenturaJoanna Shimkus
  • Mélodie Abad, Clovis Cornillac, Christophe Vandevelde, and Marc Zinga in Mister Bob (2011)

    8. Mister Bob

    20111h 43mTV Movie
    6.8 (122)
    This film is based on the true character of Robert (Bob) Denard in the 1960s when he fights in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As a mercenary, he defends President Mobutu, who won his position after a putsch. Despite pressures from the French government who supports Mobutu's opponent Moïse Tshombé, Denard stays loyal to Mobutu until the very end, when he understand that Mobutu wants him dead. Denard's only solution becomes to get rid of Mobutu, but the French government ends up changing side to support Mobutu. Luckily for him, Denard manages to be rescued after a head injury during combat against Mobutu's troops.
    DirectorThomas VincentStarsClovis CornillacChristophe VandeveldeDan Herzberg
  • Zoi Laskari in Captives of Hate (1972)

    9. Captives of Hate

    19721h 41m
    5.4 (88)
    After escaping the violent political upheaval in the Republic of the Congo, a Greek woman falls in love with her benefactor who is harbouring a shocking secret. Is she prepared to face the facts, and accept her fate as a captive of hate?
    DirectorNikos FoskolosStarsZoi LaskariKostas KarrasEleni Anousaki
  • Broderick Crawford in King of Diamonds (1961)

    10. King of Diamonds

    Episode: 

    The Swindler

    (1962)
    1961–196230mTV Episode
    King helps three men escape from the Congo when a revolt in the diamond fields breaks out.
    DirectorRobert GordonStarsBroderick CrawfordStuart ErwinJesse White
  • The Seven Red Berets (1969)

    11. The Seven Red Berets

    19691h 30m
    5.1 (122)
    Seven mercenaries on a mission into Simba controlled Congo territory requisite with typical sterotypes.
    DirectorMario SicilianoStarsIvan RassimovSieghardt RuppKirk Morris
  • Heritage Minutes (1991)

    12. Heritage Minutes

    Episode: 

    Dextraze in the Congo

    (2005)
    1991– TV Episode
    General Jacques Dextraze of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force rescued a group of hostages from the Katangan rebels in the Congo.
    StarsBernard BrowneGraham HarleyArnold Pinnock
  • Kongo (1997)

    13. Kongo

    19977 epsTV Mini Series
    7.3 (102)
    Guy Moeyaert is a well-meaning colonial official in a jungle district of the Belgian Congo in the last years of white colonial rule, after the Second World War, a paternalistic system where the state, unable to be properly present all over the vast, sparsely populated country, collaborates systematically with the Roman Catholic missions -in his post, father Alexis- and private enterprise, in case mainly the mining company -locally represented by engineer Lenaers- which also helps out with money and labor for such public tasks as road building. Even his grip on the natives is weak, as they live under hereditary tribal leaders, which must take from its people what they are legally obliged to deliver to the state in taxes and labor; coercion is done by force, including whipping on the bare buttocks, which Guy hates. Guy also starts a love affair with Hélène Vermarcke, who gets estranged from her husband Luk (the three were already friends in Belgium) as he devotes all his efforts the their plantation, leaving her alone with the native staff and their son, or is it Guy's? The adultery makes his position in the white community far weaker then is compatible with his position of theoretical authority without sufficient independent means. He also depends heavily on his educated black clerk Gabriel Ndazaru and ambitious white deputy Arthur. It all gets worse for everybody as the call for 'dipenda', black independence as in Ghana, gets stronger, in time even accepted 'in principle' by the Belgian government which plans a gradual transition which the idealist Guy supports but all other whites oppose, while the natives have neither patience nor insight and start attacking every symbol of the old regime, regardless of its objective value, and soon white people and 'collaborators' too- it gets physically dangerous, but Guy won't budge or flee...
    StarsLucas Van den EyndeKaren van ParijsGuy Van Sande

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