Fratricide in Burkina: The Assassination of Thomas Sankara and French Africa (2025)

Burkina Faso, West Africa. October 15, 1987. Automatic gunfire breaks the even night’s silence and kills President Thomas Sankara. Had the assassins been sent by his brother in arms, Blaise Compaoré, with whom he had launched the Marxist Burkina Revolution a few years before, and who took control of the country right after the assassination?

Documentary

Fratricide in Burkina: The Assassination of Thomas Sankara and French Africa

Crew arrow_drop_down

Similar Films

  • The Times of Harvey Milk
  • Vindicating Trump
  • JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
  • Charbon
  • Coup 53
  • Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
  • Son of the Mullah
  • The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
  • Who Bombed Judi Bari?
  • Orbainak
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective
  • 刺蔣
  • The Hands That Held the Knives
  • L'autre rêve de Martin Luther King
  • Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy
  • The Assassination of JFK
  • Wie starb John F. Kennedy?

NextFilm 2025