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ART IMITATES LIFE: Clint Eastwood directed and plays a filmmaker much like John Huston shooting a movie much like The African Queen in White Hunter Black Heart (1990), filmed in Zambia and Zimbabwe. - Photo: Courtesy of Warner Bros., Inc.
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ROUGH GOING: Director Sydney Pollack filmed Out of Africa (1985), based on Isak Dinesen’s books, near Ngong Hills outside Nairobi, Kenya, where the author lived. - Photo: Courtesy of Universal Studios
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WORLD STAGE: Zimbabwe stands in for South Africa in Morgan Freeman’s re-creation of a small township for Bopha! (1993), the story of a black police officer during Apartheid. - Photo: Bob Greene/Paramount
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JUNGLE FEVER: Michael Apted, with Sigourney Weaver, used real gorillas where he could to film Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988) in Rwanda and Kenya. - Photo: Courtesy of Universal Studios
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CAMEL TIME: Filming a comedy in Morocco with Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman was no laughing matter for Elaine May (in group at left) and her team on Ishtar (1987). - Photo: Courtesy Columbia Pictures
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TRUE STORY: Terry George stages the U.N. peacekeeping forces protecting thousands of Tutsi refugees against Hutu militia in Hotel Rwanda (2004), shot in South Africa. - Photo: Courtesy United Artists
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GOD HELP US: Fred Zinnemann directing Audrey Hepburn as a young woman living in a convent in The Nun’s Story (1959), shot in the Congo. - Photo: Courtesy AMPAS/Warner Bros. Pictures
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WHITE HUNTERS: Howard Hawks (right) plans a scene with John Wayne (left) in Hatari!, shot in Tanzania. In 1962, the story of a group of men trapping wild animals to sell to zoos was politically acceptable. - Photo: Courtesy AMPAS/Paramount Pictures
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DESERT PATROL: Alejandro González Iñárritu tries to get his point across to an army of cast, crew and extras shooting Babel (2006) on location in Morocco. - Photo: Taschen/Paramount Vantage
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BIG COUNTRY: Henry King and company stalk a rhino in an adaptation of Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), shot in Kenya. King first filmed in Africa in 1939. - Photo: Courtesy AMPAS/20th Century Fox Film Corp
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