CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - Four paraplegics and three "abled" men with homemade instruments make the sweetest music on the "meanest streets" in the Congo. A rousing depiction of unimaginable ...

Music, history, and politics intersect in this dense Democratic Republic of Congo documentary that informs as well as overwhelms. A Cold War-themed story of rebellion, espionage, and geopolitical ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday banned a documentary film about a doctor who treats war rape victims, leading the film makers to say the government was trying to silence ...

Congolese documentary filmmaker Nelson Makengo, whose feature debut, “Rising Up at Night,” won the Special Jury Award at Swiss doc fest Visions du Réel this year, is producing the Kinshasa-set ...

The documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” focuses on a hot spot in the Cold War, set to music by the era’s ambassadors of cool—Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach and other jazz masters.

From 1998 to 2003, the Second Congo War raged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It involved nine African nations and became one of the largest wars in African history. The war began about a ...