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"Ao Vivo em Angola" is the sixth DVD of the Brazilian musical group Banda Calypso. It was recorded in September 2011 during the "International Music Festival of Sumbe" in Angola. Despite the logistical difficulties, the
Guerre du peuple en Angola focuses on the situation in Angola in June 1975, when the declaration of independence sparks the start of a civil war. The filmmakers, who went there to train young Angolan filmmakers, bring ba
The documentary shows the guerilla fight of the Angolan revolutionaries from the fight against Portuguese colonialism. The people had been fighting for 14 years for their independence and when it was going to be declared
On February 4, 1961, armed militants attacked the prison and administration posts in Luanda, the capital of Angola; a brutal repression against black populations ensued; at the same time, the long strike of cotton worker
An insight and explanation of the Ovambo people of Angola and their smelting tradition. It highlights and examines an ongoing process that contains many examples of cultural ritual. The film is also of interest as it is
Documentary filmed as part of the Cinematographic Mission to Angola with the aim of collecting images of the Portuguese colonies to exhibit at the Ibero-American Exposition in Seville, in 1929.
Recorded during a visit to Angola's liberation movement, the MPLA's eastern front in 1968. The film opens with some Angolans performing a symbolic play about the war. In addition, the military and political training, the
Ethnographic film about territorial demarcation in Angola.
The film sheds light on a country in which, after twenty-seven years of war and three years of official peace, there is an overwhelming discrepancy between poor and rich. A sensitive and respectful approach towards a tr
Through testimonies and the trial of mercenaries from the Angolan War, the history and struggles of the Angolan people are revealed, from the so-called "Portuguese discoveries" to the Second War of Liberation.
Documentary by Raquel Soeiro de Brito.
This film shot in the south of Angola, is one of the few existing archival films of the time. It’s likely that the author filmed these images on command of Norton de Matos who was twice governor of Angola (1912-15 and 19
In 1927, Luís Wittnich Carrisso, professor at the Coimbra University, travels to Angola to study the local flora. Second episode of a series of 4 documentaries on the Botanical history of Portugal.
There were 57 months, 900 hours of audiovisual material collected in Angolan and international territory, with about 700 statements from protagonists of the anti-colonial struggle. All of this aimed at preserving the mem
The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo is a 1999 American short documentary film directed by Simeon Soffer. It focuses primarily on the inmates experiences in the rodeo. For a lot of those prisoners, the
Three black man collectively have wrongly served 100 years in solitary confinement.
An investigative documentary on the Angolan conflict, filmed on location in Portuguese-controlled Africa by Robert M. Young and first broadcast in 1961. (Note: Originally broadcast as an episode of NBC’s White Paper ser