4 Best Movies Set in or About Tanzania

4 Movies Set in or About Tanzania

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

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   1. Hatari!

   1962

   A rugged band of professional animal catchers working the plains of East Africa contends with dangerous game and a spirited female photographer who upends their all-male camp. Howard Hawks's easygoing adventure comedy starring John Wayne.

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   2. The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos

   2008

   This lyrical nature documentary follows the vast annual gathering of over a million flamingos on the harsh soda flats of Tanzania's Lake Natron, capturing the fragile cycle of life and death. A visually stunning wildlife film.

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   3. Serengeti Shall Not Die

   Serengeti darf nicht sterben · 1959

   This pioneering, Oscar-winning documentary follows conservationist Bernhard Grzimek and his son as they study the great wildlife migrations of Tanzania's Serengeti and campaign to preserve the plains from encroachment. A landmark nature film.

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   4. Mountains of the Moon

   1990

   This sweeping adventure dramatizes the perilous 19th-century expedition of explorers Richard Burton and John Speke to find the source of the Nile, and the rivalry that grew between them. A grand historical epic.