https://shotonwhat.com/region/africa The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Thu, 09 May 2024 00:32:37 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:55:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/othello-1951 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:39:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/othello-1951
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: G.R. Aldo, Anchise Brizzi, George Fanto, Alberto Fusi, Oberdan Troiani
The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/inception-2010 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:35:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/inception-2010
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/john-wick-chapter-3-parabellum-2019 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:57:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/john-wick-chapter-3-parabellum-2019
Director: Chad Stahelski
Cinematographer: Dan Laustsen
John Wick is on the run after killing a member of the international assassins' guild, and with a $14 million price tag on his head, he is the target of hit men and women everywhere. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/free-solo-2018 Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:53:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/free-solo-2018
Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Cinematographer: Jimmy Chin, Clair Popkin, Mikey Schaefer
Alex Honnold attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb El Capitan. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/la-jungle-est-mon-jardin-2022 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:25:48 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/la-jungle-est-mon-jardin-2022
Director: Enrico Alexander Giordano
An Ethiopian migrant, wants to join her sister in England. A former high-ranking soldier, has just delivered his wife from an incurable disease. Between these two marginals an unfailing relationship will be tied. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-living-daylights-1987 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:37:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-living-daylights-1987
Director: John Glen
Cinematographer: Alec Mills
James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spectre-2015 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:23:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spectre-2015
Director: Sam Mendes
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
A cryptic message from 007's past sends him pitted against a mysterious terrorist organization called Spectre, and learns of its involvement in previous events of his most dangerous missions. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-crown-2016 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:37:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-crown-2016
Director: Benjamin Caron, Philip Martin, Julian Jarrold, Stephen Daldry, Philippa Lowthorpe, Samuel Donovan, Jessica Hobbs, Christian Schwochow
Cinematographer: Adriano Goldman, Stuart Howell, Ole Bratt Birkeland, Frank Lamm, Fabian Wagner
Follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped the second half of the twentieth century. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-1999 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:59:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-1999
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Two Jedi escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to claim their old glory. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones-2002 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:54:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones-2002
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates an assassination attempt on the senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-2005 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:24:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-2005
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Three years into the Clone Wars, the Jedi rescue Palpatine from Count Dooku. As Obi-Wan pursues a new threat, Anakin acts as a double agent between the Jedi Council and Palpatine and is lured into a sinister plan to rule the galaxy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-1977 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 14:53:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-1977
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/king-solomons-mines-1950 Wed, 29 May 2024 15:23:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/king-solomons-mines-1950
Director: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton
Cinematographer: Robert Surtees
Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ryans-daughter-1970 Wed, 29 May 2024 01:46:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ryans-daughter-1970
Director: David Lean
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cleopatra-1963 Tue, 21 May 2024 05:09:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cleopatra-1963
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy, Jack Hildyard
Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-mummy-2-2017 Thu, 16 May 2024 17:37:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-mummy-2-2017
Director: Alex Kurtzman
Cinematographer: Ben Seresin
An ancient Egyptian princess is awakened from her crypt beneath the desert, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia and terrors that defy human comprehension. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/napoleon-3-2023 Thu, 09 May 2024 00:32:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/napoleon-3-2023
Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Dariusz Wolski
An epic that details the chequered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cobra-verde-1987 Wed, 08 May 2024 20:36:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cobra-verde-1987
Director: Werner Herzog
Cinematographer: Viktor Ruzicka
During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/io-capitano-2023 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 21:44:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/io-capitano-2023
Director: Matteo Garrone
Cinematographer: Paolo Carnera
A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-temptation-of-christ-1988 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:59:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-temptation-of-christ-1988
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus
The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-rogue-nation-2015 Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:45:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-rogue-nation-2015
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
Ethan and his team take on their most impossible mission yet when they have to eradicate an international rogue organization as highly skilled as they are and committed to destroying the IMF. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sonic-the-hedgehog-2020 Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:45:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sonic-the-hedgehog-2020
Director: Jeff Fowler
Cinematographer: Stephen F. Windon
After discovering a small, blue, fast hedgehog, a small-town police officer must help him defeat an evil genius who wants to do experiments on him. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/this-is-my-desire-2020 Sun, 09 Apr 2023 20:59:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/this-is-my-desire-2020
Director: Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri
Cinematographer: Arseni Khachaturan
In Lagos, Nigeria, tragedy and fate intervene as two people try to better the lives of their families. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/uncut-gems-2019 Sat, 05 Nov 2022 13:45:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/uncut-gems-2019
Director: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Cinematographer: Darius Khondji
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/liberty-2018 Mon, 03 Feb 2020 20:49:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/liberty-2018
Director: Mikael Marcimain
Cinematographer: Aske Foss
Christian moves to Tanzania with his do-good parents and tries to find his way in a community of ex-pats and Africans. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/game-of-thrones-2011 Fri, 03 Jan 2020 19:15:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/game-of-thrones-2011
Director: David Nutter, Alan Taylor, Alex Graves, Miguel Sapochnik, Mark Mylod, Jeremy Podeswa, Daniel Minahan, Alik Sakharov, Michelle MacLaren, Brian Kirk, David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Timothy Van Patten, Neil Marshall, David Petrarca, Michael Slovis, Jack Bender, Daniel Sackheim, Matt Shakman
Cinematographer: Anette Haellmigk, Jonathan Freeman, Robert McLachlan, Fabian Wagner, David Franco, Gregory Middleton, P.J. Dillon, Matthew Jensen, Alik Sakharov, Martin Kenzie, Marco Pontecorvo, Kramer Morgenthau, Chris Seager, Sam McCurdy, David Katznelson
Nine noble families fight for control over the mythical lands of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for thousands of years. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lifeboat-2018 Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:48:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lifeboat-2018
Director: Skye Fitzgerald
Cinematographer: Kenny Allen
Volunteers from a German non-profit risk the waves of the Mediterranean to pluck refugees from sinking rafts pushing off from Libya in the middle of the night. LIFEBOAT puts a human face on... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/atlantics-2019 Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:07:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/atlantics-2019
Director: Mati Diop
Cinematographer: Claire Mathon
In a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-amazing-race-2001 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:37:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-amazing-race-2001
Director: Bertram van Munster, Evan Weinstein
Cinematographer: Peter Rieveschl, Per Larsson, Tom Cunningham, Josh Gitersonke
Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/reuniting-the-rubins-2010 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 22:19:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/reuniting-the-rubins-2010
Director: Yoav Factor
Cinematographer: Miles Cook
One man's mission to follow his dream is comically halted in its tracks at the request of his dear, but difficult, aged Jewish mother who is hell-bent on seeing her warring dysfunctional grown up grandchildren together one last time before she dies. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/body-of-lies-2008 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:14:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/body-of-lies-2008
Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Alexander Witt
A CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/escape-room-2019 Thu, 19 Sep 2019 12:40:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/escape-room-2019
Director: Adam Robitel
Cinematographer: Marc Spicer
Six strangers find themselves in a maze of deadly mystery rooms and must use their wits to survive. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lawrence-of-arabia-1962 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:31:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lawrence-of-arabia-1962
Director: David Lean
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/gladiator-2000 Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:53:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/gladiator-2000
Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: John Mathieson
A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/war-dogs-2016 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:04:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/war-dogs-2016
Director: Todd Phillips
Cinematographer: Lawrence Sher
Loosely based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a three hundred million dollar contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/when-we-were-kings-1996 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:56:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/when-we-were-kings-1996
Director: Leon Gast
Cinematographer: Maryse Alberti, Paul Goldsmith, Kevin Keating, Albert Maysles, Roderick Young
A documentary of the 1974 heavyweight championship bout in Zaire, "The Rumble in the Jungle," between champion George Foreman and underdog challenger Muhammad Ali. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-brothers-grimsby-2016 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:22:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-brothers-grimsby-2016
Director: Louis Leterrier
Cinematographer: Oliver Wood
A new assignment forces a top spy to team up with his football hooligan brother. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/yesterday-2004 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:57:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/yesterday-2004
Director: Darrell Roodt
Cinematographer: Michael Alan Brierley
After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/hotel-rwanda-2004 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:54:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/hotel-rwanda-2004
Director: Terry George
Cinematographer: Robert Fraisse
Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/god-sleeps-in-rwanda-2005 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:46:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/god-sleeps-in-rwanda-2005
Director: Kimberlee Acquaro, Stacy Sherman
Cinematographer: Kimberlee Acquaro, Stacy Sherman
A powerful documentary about five women whose lives have been irrevocably altered by the Rwandan genocide. With the country left nearly 70% female in the wake of the massacres, "God Sleeps ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-death-of-kevin-carter-casualty-of-the-bang-bang-club-2004 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:46:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-death-of-kevin-carter-casualty-of-the-bang-bang-club-2004
Director: Dan Krauss
Cinematographer: Dan Krauss, Monica Lam, Mike Welt
In 1994, a South African photojournalist received the Pulitzer Prize for his picture of a starving girl stalked by a vulture. Weeks later, he carried out a terrible, desperate act--an act that embodied the anguish of an entire nation. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/darwins-nightmare-2004 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:45:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/darwins-nightmare-2004
Director: Hubert Sauper
Cinematographer: Hubert Sauper
A documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/binta-y-la-gran-idea-2004 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:40:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/binta-y-la-gran-idea-2004
Director: Javier Fesser
Cinematographer: Chechu Graf
Binta, a little girl from Senegal, tells us about the everyday life in her village, the importance of education for the girls, and about her father's great idea to make the world a better place. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/view-from-a-blue-moon-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:06:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/view-from-a-blue-moon-2015
Director: Blake Kueny
Cinematographer: Paulo Barcellos, Erik Knutson
The first surf film shot in 4K, View From A Blue Moon follows the world's most dynamic surfer John Florence and his closest friends from his home on the North Shore of Oahu to his favorite ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/body-team-12-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:54:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/body-team-12-2015
Director: David Darg
Body Team 12 is tasked with collecting the dead at the height of the Ebola outbreak. These body collectors have arguably the most dangerous and gruesome job in the world. Yet despite the ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-way-back-2010 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:48:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-way-back-2010
Director: Peter Weir
Cinematographer: Russell Boyd
Siberian gulag escapees travel 4,000 miles by foot to freedom in India. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/die-pro-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:29:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/die-pro-2015
Director: Andre Velts
Cinematographer: Eduan Kitching
DIE PRO ("The Pro") tells the story of a young surfer, Tiaan Nothnagel, that has to come to terms with the accidental death of his best friend, Dirkie Lawrence, just before their last year ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/human-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:24:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/human-2015
Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/avengers-age-of-ultron-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:39:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/avengers-age-of-ultron-2015
Director: Joss Whedon
Cinematographer: Ben Davis
When Tony Stark and Bruce Banner try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program called Ultron, things go horribly wrong and it's up to Earth's mightiest heroes to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plan. ]]>