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

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

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

NextFilm 2025