１９９３年１０月，索馬里鬧飢荒，美國派出特種部隊逮捕索馬里軍閥的爪牙及維持秩序。他們在『黑鷹』直昇機接載下到達，卻遭到索馬里人的反抗。索馬里軍以重型武器還擊，『黑鷹』相繼被擊落，雙方發生激烈巷戰。一個預計一小時的簡單任務，竟然演變成十五小時的血腥戰役，傷亡無數……
改編自2009年索馬里海盜騎刧美國貨船Maersk 阿拉巴馬號 (Alabama) 的真實事件。這次二百年來美國貨船首次遭騎刧的事件舉世震驚，由湯漢斯飾演的船長菲獵斯 (Richard Phillips) 為拯救船員更成為人質，經歷五天的生死存亡。
Danielle(艾莉西亞菲瑾德 飾)和James(占士麥艾禾 飾)在諾曼第荒蕪之境邂逅，二人各自準備出發執行危險任務，本應把男女感情拋諸腦後，卻不由自主地愛上對方。兩條平行線相交後各走一方，擔任英國特工的James前往索馬里追蹤恐怖分子，更被聖戰戰士脅持；生物數學家Danielle則要潛入深海，進行探索生命之源的研究。一個人陷入生靈塗炭之地，一個人深入生命搖籃之海，唯有愛能超越這種世界最遙遠的距離…
After an inspiring chance encounter with his idol, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur uproots his life and moves to Somalia looking for the story of a lifetime. Hooking up with a local fixer, he attempts to get embedded with the local Somali pirates, only to quickly find himself in over his head.
80年代尾，正值冷戰高峰期，南韓為加入聯合國四出進行游說工作，導致與北韓在非洲爆發外交衝突。1991年，在南韓駐索馬里大使館設立三年後，索馬里首都摩加迪沙陷入內戰，南北韓大使館外交人員同時面臨著被困當地險況。
南北韓外交官在外界看起來不共戴天，但在戰火之下，他們都成為了索馬里政府和反政府武裝份子的目標。兩國人員決定暫時放下分歧，冒著生命危險聯手展開驚心動魄的逃亡行動。
根據索馬里模特華莉絲·迪里的一本同名自傳改編，由德裔美國人雪瑞·霍爾曼導演，埃塞俄比亞超模利亞·凱貝德主演。為逃離強迫婚姻，十三歲的索馬里少女逃到倫敦，在該國領事館當女工。無奈領事館在索馬里內戰時關閉，走進英倫都市當清潔女工，並吸引到時裝攝影師的注意。當身處國際模特兒事業的巔峰之時，她毅然放棄名利，成為了聯合國廢除女性割禮的親善大使，誓要對抗家鄉奉行的風俗，因為她正是這個陋習的受害者。
精神抖擻的 22 歲行動人士兼攝影記者丹·艾爾頓衝上第一線，在這部傳記電影中，敘述援助索馬利亞難民的危險紓困行動。
In 1993, 19 soldiers from the Royal Malay Soldier Regiment (RAMD), the most senior regiment within the Malaysian army, are sent on a dangerous mission to save 70 US Rangers trapped in the Bakara Market in Somalia during the civil war.
25-year-old Karri is stuck with his life: days at a job as a guard at a shopping mall, nights out with his friends. Then Karri meets Caasha, a Somali girl about his age.
An Italian in East Africa having an affair with a coloured woman realises that his treatment of her is as tyrannical as more overt superior colonialist dogma. Based on a novel by Enrico Emmanuele.
Successful model Samira Hashi makes an emotional return to Somalia, one of the most dangerous places in the world and the place she was born. Civil war broke out in 1991, 10 days after Samira's birth, but two years later her family managed to flee the country and she grew up in the UK.Now, as Samira and the war both turn 21, she's going back for the first time to visit the people and places she left behind. The contrast with her safe and glamorous life in London could not be starker as she experiences firsthand the war's effect on a generation of young people growing up in conflict.
As the first African team ever to do so, Somalia has just signed up for the Bandy World Championships. The young players don't live in Somalia; they live in Borlänge, Sweden, where xenophobia has taken hold.
Ayaanle is the story of a 21-year-old Somali boy named Ayaanle living in Nairobi who aspires to become a world-famous actor. His life is turned upside down after a series of unlikely and unfortunate events force him to defy the odds for his survival.
Exposing piracy in Somalia from the inside out, The Pirates Tapes follows Mohamed Ashareh, a young Somali-Canadian, as he travels to Somalia in hopes of joining an active pirate cell. Armed only with a hidden camera, Mohamed works his way into a cell run by a ruthless warlord, Jama Donyal, and is assigned to his first hijacking mission. When things take an unexpected turn, Mohamed finds himself on the run from the law with the danger of execution looming.
In one of the world's largest and oldest refugee camps, Dadaab, the inhabitans survive by watching films and dreaming. The refugees cannot leave the camp, but they let their minds escape the harsh reality: by going to the simple cinema hall run by Abdikafi Mohamed, the film's protagonist.
On October 3rd, 1993, 120 Delta Force Commandos and Army Rangers were dropped into the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was a fast daylight raid to kidnap lead terrorist Mohammed Farrah Aidid, who had been killing U.N. workers delivering food to starving Somalis. Aidid’s goal was to control the country by controlling all the food. The mission abruptly changed to a rescue operation. Surrounded by Somali militia, a fierce firefight ensued that left American troops trapped and fighting for their lives. The ordeal left 18 American men dead, 70 wounded, with 3,000 Somalis casualties. This brilliant documentary tells the true story of "Black Hawk Down" through the memories and voices of the American Special Forces survivors. Also included are Somali militiamen as they recount their harrowing experiences of battle.
The French researcher Bertrand Monnet visits pirates in Nigeria and Somalia to learn how they make money from oil theft and kidnapping.
Α Bengalese architect builds library boats that can bring books to people even during the monsoon season. Α Mongolian author packs two boxes full of books each summer to provide reading material to children in remote areas. Α Kenyan librarian leads caravans of camels loaded with boxes of books to the nomadic tribes bordering Somalia. Despite the heat, wind, rain or snow, they still manage their long journeys. This film about the fascinating world of mobile libraries tells of unusual means of transportation and adventurous travel, of different cultures and lifestyles, of the worries, aspirations and dreams of people in these areas – of books that change lives – and of book lovers, who take on unbelievable challenges in order to provide people in the remotest areas of the world with reading material. A film about the love of literature and the respect for knowledge that accepts no boundaries.
This documentary reaches to the depth of Somali history, starting from the strong kingdoms that ruled areas far away into Africa, passing by the Portuguese raids and ending with its division into five colonies ruled by different European forces, leaving the people of the same race and language separated by geographical borders. It addresses problems of civil war, chaos, theft, and mass destruction. It also focuses on valuable attempts by national organizations to resist occupation and foster peace.