The Eyes of Ghana
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1h 30m / Documentary
In theaters Wed, Oct 28, 2026
About the film
93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse—personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah—races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,300 films that captured the birth of African independence in the fifties and sixties. Yet unseen by the public, these films may not only rewrite Ghanaian and African history—but world history itself.
93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,300 films that captured the birth of African independence in the 1950s and ’60s—footage that could rewrite Ghanaian and African history.
- Directed by
- Ben Proudfoot
- Starring
- Kwame Nkrumah, Emund Addo, Chris Hesse, Anita Afonu
US release dates
- In theaters
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