The Ark of Lights and Shadows
Mar 17, 2018 | IMDB 3
90 min Watch NowDocumentary
The forgotten story of Martin and Osa Johnson, rebel filmmakers and Kansas natives who made some of the first films in Africa in times when filming itself was more dangerous than lions or malaria.
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