4 Best Movies Set in or About Botswana

4 Movies Set in or About Botswana

Foreign-led films whose sustained setting or subject remains centered on Botswana.

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   1. The Gods Must Be Crazy

   1980

   When a Coca-Cola bottle falls from a passing plane into the Kalahari, a Bushman who has never seen such a thing sets out to return the strange object to the gods, his gentle odyssey crossing paths with bumbling scientists and revolutionaries. A beloved slapstick comedy.

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   2. Into the Okavango

   2018

   This National Geographic documentary follows a team of explorers on a grueling months-long expedition tracing the rivers that feed Botswana's Okavango Delta, from the highlands of Angola into the heart of one of Africa's great wildernesses, in a bid to protect it.

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   3. A United Kingdom

   2016

   Based on a true story, the heir to the throne of what is now Botswana falls in love with a white London clerk in the late 1940s, and their marriage ignites a political firestorm across Britain, the empire, and southern Africa. A stirring historical romance.

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   4. N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman

   1980

   Spanning decades, this landmark documentary tells the life story of N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman of the Kalahari, and through her the wrenching transformation of her people from a life on the land to the margins of a changing world.

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