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John Akomfrah

Director · 49 credits · 2 in highly-rated films

Best known for The Nine Muses (2010)

Directed movies (44 total, ranked by score)

  1. The Nine Muses

    2010 · ★ 5.6 (6 votes)

    Documentary, History

    1

  2. Goldie: When Saturn Returns

    1998 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    2

  3. Seven Songs for Malcolm X

    1993

    Documentary

    3

  4. Speak Like a Child

    1998 · ★ 4.0 (2 votes)

    Drama

    4

  5. Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

    2013 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    5

  6. Who Needs a Heart

    1991

    Drama, Documentary

    6

  7. Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz

    2003 · ★ 9.0 (1 votes)

    7

  8. Riot

    1999

    Documentary

    8

  9. Acts Of Faith

    2016 · ★ 8.0 (2 votes)

    9

  10. Tropikos

    2016

    10

  11. The Last Angel of History

    1996 · ★ 6.6 (8 votes)

    Documentary, Science Fiction

    11

  12. The Stuart Hall Project

    2013 · ★ 4.6 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    12

  13. Handsworth Songs

    1986 · ★ 5.5 (10 votes)

    Documentary

    13

  14. Memory Room 451

    1996 · ★ 4.5 (1 votes)

    Science Fiction, Documentary

    14

  15. Venice 70: Future Reloaded

    2013 · ★ 5.1 (19 votes)

    Drama, Documentary

    15

  16. The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

    1999

    16

  17. Purple

    2017

    Documentary

    17

  18. Vertigo Sea

    2015 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    18

  19. Mimesis: African Soldier

    2018

    19

  20. Testament

    1988

    Drama

    20

  21. The March

    2013 · ★ 4.8 (9 votes)

    Documentary

    21

  22. Digitopia

    2001 · ★ 5.0 (3 votes)

    22

  23. At the Graveside of Tarkovsky

    2012

    23

  24. Numen

    2014

    24

  25. Arcadia

    2023

    25

  26. The Airport

    2016

    26

  27. Peripeteia

    2012

    27

  28. Transfigured Night

    2014

    28

  29. Mnemosyne

    2010

    29

  30. Hauntologies

    2012

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 30, 2026.