Mau-Mau (1955)

Director
Elwood Price

Main cast
Chet Huntley

Genres
Documentary

Description
Newsman Chet Huntley narrates this documentary showing the rise of the African resistance movement known as the "Mau-Mau" against British rule in East Africa in the early 1950s.


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