Bygger på Jules Vernes berättelse om professor Fergussons planer på att ordna den första ballongexpeditionen som skall korsa Afrika.

År 1913 står världen på tröskeln till första världskriget. I Zanzibar slår sig de två äventyrarna Oldsmith och Flynn samman för att jaga elefant och smuggla elfenben. När kriget bryter ut går de med i kampen mot tyskarna. Deras uppdrag är att placera en bomb på den enorma slagkryssaren Blücher. Baserad på Wilbur Smiths storsäljande bok.

Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.

Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea and their small town blossoms into a tourist hot-spot as a result. But for Mbwana, the reality isn't what he dreamed – and when he meets the fish again, both of them forgotten, ruined and old, he decides only one of them can survive. Jonah is a big fish story about the old and the new, and the links and the distances between them. A visual feast, shot though with humour and warmth, it tells an old story in a completely new way.

The Sultan of Zanzibar has a harbor infested with sharks, which makes it impossible for ships to trade with him. In an attempt to fix the problem, he brings twelve hippos into the harbor to keep the sharks away. His idea works well enough, but once the hippos are no longer a novelty and the people no longer feed them, they begin to starve. After the hungry hippos rampage through the city looking for food, Aban-Khan, the king's adviser, slaughters all the hippos except one, a little hippo named Hugo.