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1. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
PG-13 | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
Director: Taika Waititi | Stars: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House
Votes: 141,824 | Gross: $5.20M
2. Wolf Creek (2005)
R | 99 min | Horror, Thriller
Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.
Director: Greg McLean | Stars: Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, John Jarratt
Votes: 78,325 | Gross: $16.19M
3. The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
PG | 109 min | Adventure, Comedy
A comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.
Director: Jamie Uys | Stars: N!xau, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, Louw Verwey
Votes: 59,440 | Gross: $30.03M
4. A Far Off Place (1993)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When a gang of African poachers raid her family's farm, young Nonni, visiting American teenager Harry Winslow and a local bushman guide must escape into the Kalahari desert and reach the nearest town.
Director: Mikael Salomon | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Ethan Embry, Jack Thompson, Sarel Bok
Votes: 3,813 | Gross: $12.89M
5. Sweet Country (2017)
R | 113 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
Director: Warwick Thornton | Stars: Hamilton Morris, Shanika Cole, Ewen Leslie, Sam Neill
Votes: 9,257 | Gross: $0.10M
6. Proteus (2003)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance
An interracial gay love story set in early 18th century South Africa about two men -- a black prisoner living in a Cape Town penal colony and a Dutch sailor -- who weather injustices as a result of their affair.
Directors: John Greyson, Jack Lewis | Stars: Rouxnet Brown, Shaun Smyth, Neil Sandilands, Kristen Thomson
Votes: 703
7. Beautiful People (1974)
G | 92 min | Comedy, Documentary
Hilarious documentary on the wildlife of the Namib Desert.
Director: Jamie Uys | Star: Paddy O'Byrne
Votes: 4,155
8. The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989)
PG | 98 min | Comedy
Six people meet in the Kalahari desert: a female NYC lawyer flying with a local zoologist/pilot in a mini-plane, a Cuban and an African soldier taking each other POW, a Boer elephant poacher, and a Bushman looking for his two children.
Director: Jamie Uys | Stars: N!xau, Lena Farugia, Hans Strydom, Eiros
Votes: 18,047 | Gross: $6.29M
9. Sands of the Kalahari (1965)
Approved | 119 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
After a small aircraft crashes in the Kalahari Desert, one of the seven passengers decides that his survival chances would increase if he eliminates the other men in the group.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Stanley Baker, Stuart Whitman, Susannah York, Harry Andrews
Votes: 1,494
10. Crazy Hong Kong (1993)
Not Rated | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy
The gods are still crazy after all these years! "Crazy Hong Kong" (1993), also known as "The Gods Must Be Crazy IV", finds N!xau, the bushman star of the classic comedy "The Gods Must Be ... See full summary »
Director: Wellson Chin | Stars: N!xau, Carina Lau, Cecilia Yip, Ching Wan Lau
Votes: 662
11. Dirkie (1969)
G | 81 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
After a plane crash a young boy and his dog wander through the Kalahari desert.
Director: Jamie Uys | Stars: Wynand Uys, Jamie Uys, Lady Frolic of Belvedale, Wilhelm Esterhuizen
Votes: 479
12. Cool Change (1986)
PG | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Park ranger Steve Mitchell is torn between Lee, a beautiful sly political aide from Melbourne who supports the government's decision to turn the local grazing areas into a national park, and his old flame Joanna, a rancher who opposes it.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Jon Blake, Lisa Armytage, Deborra-Lee Furness, David Bradshaw
Votes: 59
13. Lost in Africa (1994)
100 min | Action, Adventure
A young American and a young English woman are kidnapped by a tribe in Africa. They manage to escape but the leader of the tribe is killed in the process. There's a whole jungle between them and civilization and chief's son wants revenge.
Director: Stewart Raffill | Stars: Jennifer McComb, Ashley Hamilton, Mohamed Nangurai, Timothy Ackroyd
Votes: 261
14. Le monde selon Tippi (1997 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary
Tippie Degré was born in Namibia, to wildlife photographer-filmmaker parents and was raised in the bush for the first ten years of her life in Southern Africa.
Director: Christian Crye | Star: Tippi Degre
Votes: 89
15. The Riddle of the Stinson (1988 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins a search, and finds the wreckage and two survivors ten days after the crash.
Director: Chris Noonan | Stars: Jack Thompson, Helen O'Connor, Mary Haire, Kendall Monaghan
Votes: 143
16. Brutal Glory (1989 Video)
111 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
The highly fictionalized making and breaking of Norman Selby, more recognizable as Kid McCoy, the real life American middleweight world boxing champion from the turn of the 20th century.
Director: Koos Roets | Stars: Robert Vaughn, Leah Pinsent, Timothy Brantley, James Ryan
Votes: 89
17. The Back of Beyond (1954)
G | 66 min | Documentary
A documentary film which follows a mailman as he travels along the Birdsville Track in the Outback.
Director: John Heyer | Stars: Tom Kruse, William Henry Butler, Jack the Dogger, Old Joe the Rainmaker
Votes: 128
18. Leatherlip (1972)
Adventure
An unhappy super-model meets a free spirited surfer, they fall in love and she abandons her previous life. Then inexplicably she disappears. Leatherlip sets off on a cross-country odyssey to find her.
Director: Stuart Pringle | Stars: Tim Hughes, Evon de Meistre, Bill Brewer, Tony Jay
19. SanDance! A Journey to the Heart of San Dance Culture (2020)
60 min | Documentary
SanDance is a 60" documentary that immerses viewers in the trance healing dance at the heart of Africa's San/Bushman culture, and follows dancers from remote villages to electrifying performance at the Kuru Dance Festival.
Director: Richard Wicksteed
20. SanDance! (2020)
60 min | Documentary
SanDance follows dancers from rehearsals in remote Kalahari villages to electrifying performances at Botswana's Kuru Dance Festival and explores the visionary world of the trance-healing dance that underpins ancestral San culture.
Director: Richard Wicksteed
21. Vanishing Cultures: Bushmen of the Kalahari (2006)
55 min | Documentary
The San people, more commonly known as Bushmen, are believed to be the earliest inhabitants of southern Africa. They have lived for 80,000 years as hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari Desert, ... See full summary »
Star: Michael York
22. With Jens Bjerre among Bushmen (1978)
42 min | Documentary, Short
Footage from a Danish expedition to Africa in 1958, mixed with sound, narration, and music.
Director: Jens Bjerre
23. Bushmen (2004)
15 min | Short
It's a typical day in Bushville. The Chief Bushman is sittin' pretty in his favorite saloon when Medianto, his trusted ally and messenger to the People, arrives on the scene. This time, ... See full summary »
Director: Eric J. Stein | Stars: Jeremiah Allen, Ben Bahr, Brian Dullaghan, Jeff Elam
Votes: 23
24. The Bushman of Bunyip Billabong (2005)
3 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Bushman of Bunyip Billabong tells the tale of a careless swagman, who learns his lesson for disrespecting the environment. Based on the ballad of 'Waltzing Matilda' and the legendary ... See full summary »
Directors: Cameron Edser, Michael Richards | Stars: Andrew Mewett, Michael Edser, Cameron Edser
Votes: 32
25. Jack Absalom on the Strzelecki Track (1985 Video)
45 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
Director: John Mabey | Star: Jack Absalom
26. The Bunyip (1947 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Eric Fawcett | Stars: Henry C. James, Christine Adrian, Tom Devine, David Dawson
27.
The Living Planet (1984)
Episode:
New Worlds
(1984)
55 min | Documentary
Over the last 10,000 years, modern man has utilized his superior intellect to colonize most of the Earth in order to further his species; sometimes to the detriment of other creatures and damaging natural habitats and environments.
Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 143
28.
Africa's Wild Horizons (2015–2020)
Episode:
Ghosts of Cederberg
(2017)
TV-G | Documentary, Adventure
29.
Wildest Africa (2010– )
Episode:
Namibia: The Sands of Time
(2010)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary
Namibia's Namib desert is the result of Atlantic winds eroding ancient mountains. Extremely hot and arid, it requires elaborate adaptations from wildlife and rare tribal populations.
Director: Richard Kirby | Star: Colin Salmon
Votes: 15
30.
The Amazing Race (2001– )
Episode:
Scorpion King Hunter
(2013)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Family, Reality-TV
The seven remaining teams travel from Hanoi, Vietnam to Xhumaga, Botswana, where they experience the cultural practices of the Kalahari Bushmen.
Director: Bertram van Munster | Stars: Phil Keoghan, Caroline Cutbirth, Jennifer Wayne, Bates Battaglia
Votes: 62
31.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
Great Human Odyssey
(2016)
TV-PG | 113 min | Documentary
Scientists are using archaeological and cultural findings to map humans' exodus from Africa and identify the adaptive skills required for the journey.
Director: Niobe Thompson | Stars: Sarah Anzick, Berhane Asfaw, Kalepa Baybayan, Yonas Beyene
Votes: 87
32.
Tribes, Predators & Me (2016– )
Episode:
Lion People of the Kalahari
(2016)
59 min | Adventure, Reality-TV
Gordon joins a group of bushmen in Botswana's Kalahari Desert to learn how to survive on foot among wild lions. He learns how to collect water from desert plants, find honey and how to retrieve meat from the lions.
Director: Rachael Kinley | Star: Gordon Buchanan
Votes: 8