Ngozi Onwurah

Ngozi Onwurah

Graduated as a director from the UK's National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield. Her first short film, 'Coffee Coloured Children', achieved international film festival success and won first prize in the BBC Showreel competition. More success and awards followed with further dramas and documentaries for a number of UK and international broadcasters including 'South of the Border', a groundbreaking series for the BBC. She was awarded the prestigious honour of special retrospective screenings at the New York Film Festival, including 'The Body Beautiful', one of the UK's most commercially successful short films. Her first feature film, 'Welcome II The Terrordome', won first prize at the Birmingham International Film Festival, the Cologne Film Festival and the audience prize at the Verona Film Festival. Ngozi has also directed an episode of 'Heartbeat' for ITV, the top-rated UK drama series with an audience of over 18 million.

  • Title: Ngozi Onwurah
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Ngozi Onwurah Movies

  • 1988
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    Coffee Coloured Children

    Coffee Coloured Children

    6.5 1988 HD

    Coffee-Colored Children is an autobiographical portrayal of Ngozi's, and her brother's, sad welcome to the world where the color of your skin...

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  • 2002
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    Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema

    Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema

    1 2002 HD

    Exploring the extraordinary contributions of women filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora, Beti Ellerson’s engaging debut intersperses...

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  • 1988
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    Coffee Coloured Children

    Coffee Coloured Children

    6.5 1988 HD

    Coffee-Colored Children is an autobiographical portrayal of Ngozi's, and her brother's, sad welcome to the world where the color of your skin...

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  • 1995
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    Welcome II the Terrordome

    Welcome II the Terrordome

    5.9 1995 HD

    Spike and his sister Anjela live in the Terrordome, a huge ghetto that all the blacks have been forced to live in. Jodie, Spike's pregnant white...

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  • 2006
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    Shoot the Messenger

    Shoot the Messenger

    5.4 2006 HD

    Shoot the Messenger follows one man's painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his...

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  • 1991
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    The Body Beautiful

    The Body Beautiful

    6 1991 HD

    This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals...

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  • 1991
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    The Body Beautiful

    The Body Beautiful

    6 1991 HD

    This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals...

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  • 1995
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    Welcome II the Terrordome

    Welcome II the Terrordome

    5.9 1995 HD

    Spike and his sister Anjela live in the Terrordome, a huge ghetto that all the blacks have been forced to live in. Jodie, Spike's pregnant white...

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  • 1988
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    Coffee Coloured Children

    Coffee Coloured Children

    6.5 1988 HD

    Coffee-Colored Children is an autobiographical portrayal of Ngozi's, and her brother's, sad welcome to the world where the color of your skin...

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  • 1992
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    Flight of the Swan

    Flight of the Swan

    1 1992 HD

    A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, she dreams of performing as...

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  • 1992
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    Flight of the Swan

    Flight of the Swan

    1 1992 HD

    A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, she dreams of performing as...

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  • 1996
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    White Men Are Cracking Up

    White Men Are Cracking Up

    3.5 1996 HD

    Maisie Blue is an enigmatic black widow figure under investigation by detective Margrave for her involvement in the suicides of successful white men....

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  • 1992
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    And Still I Rise

    And Still I Rise

    7 1992 HD

    Inspired by Maya Angelou’s poetry, Onwurah explores fears and fascinations about black women.

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  • 1988
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    Coffee Coloured Children

    Coffee Coloured Children

    6.5 1988 HD

    Coffee-Colored Children is an autobiographical portrayal of Ngozi's, and her brother's, sad welcome to the world where the color of your skin...

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  • 2001
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    Hang Time

    Hang Time

    1 2001 HD

    Hang Time follows Kwame, a promising basketball player who, desperate to provide for his grandmother and sister and obtain a contract in America,...

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  • 2001
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    Hang Time

    Hang Time

    1 2001 HD

    Hang Time follows Kwame, a promising basketball player who, desperate to provide for his grandmother and sister and obtain a contract in America,...

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  • 1996
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    I Bring You Frankincense

    I Bring You Frankincense

    1 1996 HD

    "A rites of passage drama about a mixed race boy called Sunshine who leaves Guildford in [the] 1970's and moves to London." - BFI

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  • 1993
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    Monday's Girls

    Monday's Girls

    1 1993 HD

    "Monday's Girls" explores the conflict between modern individualism and traditional communities in today's Africa through the eyes of two young...

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  • 1995
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    The Desired Number

    The Desired Number

    8 1995 HD

    This short documentary examines multiple facets of Nigeria’s cultural attitudes towards pregnancy, women’s productive options, and the...

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  • 1995
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    The Desired Number

    The Desired Number

    8 1995 HD

    This short documentary examines multiple facets of Nigeria’s cultural attitudes towards pregnancy, women’s productive options, and the...

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  • 1992
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    And Still I Rise

    And Still I Rise

    7 1992 HD

    Inspired by Maya Angelou’s poetry, Onwurah explores fears and fascinations about black women.

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    BBC series exploring cultures around the world.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Drama concerning a pair of female private detectives, Pearl Parker (Buki Armstrong) and Finn Gallagher (Rosie Rowell) operating within the bustling...

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