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Black Earth Rising(TV show/series, 2018)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h per episode | Genres: Drama, Crime

Mini series in 1 season with 8 episodes

Black Earth RisingRating: 3.4/5 (with 29 votes)
Black Earth Rising is a 2018 British psychological thriller television miniseries written and directed by Hugo Blick, about the prosecution of international war criminals. The series is a co-production between BBC Two and Netflix . The show aired on BBC Two in the United Kingdom starting on 10 September 2018; Netflix began streaming the show internationally outside the UK on 25 January 2019. ()
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About Black Earth Rising

As a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and brought to the UK. But the tragic shadow of her past proves impossible to escape.

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Black Earth Rising: Launch Trailer - BBC(Trailer, 1:01)

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Black Earth Rising Seasons and Episodes

09/10/2018Miniseries - 8 episodes
Rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide as a child, Kate was adopted and brought up in Britain by Eve Ashby, a world-class international lawyer. Kate has long struggled to escape the shadow of her past, but is now returning to work as a legal investigator in the same chambers as Eve, under leading international lawyer Michael Ennis. Kate and Eve's relationship is strained to breaking point when a controversial militia leader, who had once fought to stop the genocide, is captured in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Eve takes on his prosecution at the International Criminal Court.
#1 | 09/10/2018In Other News
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
As a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. She was adopted and brought up in Britain by Eve Ashby, a world-class international lawyer. Kate has long struggled to escape the shadow of her past, but is now returning to work as a legal investigator in the same chambers as Eve, under leading international lawyer Michael Ennis. Kate and Eve's relationship is strained to breaking point when a controversial militia leader, who had once fought to stop the genocide, is captured in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Eve takes on his prosecution at the International Criminal Court.
#2 | 09/17/2018Looking at the Past
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
Eve's case prosecuting Simon Nyamoya begins at the International Criminal Court, but a shocking incident changes everything. To try and uncover the truth behind these events, Michael Ennis launches a new case and turns to Kate for help. They will be defending Alice Munezero, a Rwandan government official and an old friend of Michael and Eve's. Alice stands accused of a historic war crime - the murder of a French priest in Rwanda in 1994.
#3 | 09/24/2018A Ghost in Name
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
Still struggling with grief, Kate works with Michael to defend Alice Munezero from the charges laid against her in France. As shadowy forces try to prevent the truth being unearthed, Kate faces threats to her personal safety. Meanwhile Michael struggles with his health back in London. Can they both continue forward to gain an acquittal for Alice?
#4 | 10/01/2018A Bowl of Cornflakes
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)
Kate and Michael finish their work on Alice's case in France but are shocked when an indicted Rwandan and Congolese war criminal, Patrice Ganimana, implicated in the Genocide, arrives in the UK. Excited by the chance to prosecute him, Michael is unsettled to learn that an old rival is handling his defence. Meanwhile this new arrival prompts Alice Munezero to delay her own return to Rwanda. As difficulties multiply for an extradition of Ganimana to the International Criminal Court, Kate and Michael's relationship begins to fray.
#5 | 10/08/2018The Eyes of the Devil
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
Blake Gaines, who has been handling Ganimana's defence, seems in danger of falling foul of those paying his legal fees. Alice Munezero tells Michael, for the first time, of her connection to the Rwandan president - Bibi Mundanzi. Meanwhile, Kate's rift with Michael deepens, and she becomes increasingly driven to help extradite Ganimana to face justice.
#6 | 10/15/2018The Game's True Nature
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
Patrice Ganimana's warnings about Kate's safety are borne out when Kate and Alice are both attacked. But Kate, nevertheless, continues her search for the case file her mother had prepared against Ganimana years before. But are establishment forces somehow closing ranks to impede bringing Ganimana to justice?
#7 | 10/22/2018Episode 7
#7 | 10/22/2018Double Bogey on the Ninth
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
Kate and Florence return to the UK to continue the search for Eve Ashby's case file against Patrice Ganimana. But someone is ahead of them, stopping at nothing to kill and terrorise their way to the missing evidence. Meanwhile Michael in the UK, Alice Munezero in Rwanda and Eunice Clayton in the US believe the time has finally come to reveal the truth about a long-buried crime, which in turn exposes Kate to a dark truth about her own past.
#8 | 10/29/2018Episode 8
#8 | 10/29/2018The Forgiving Earth
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
In Rwanda, Alice Munezero languishes in custody. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kate fights against hostile locals as well as international forces to prove the truth of her personal history. Meanwhile in London, Michael delves into a deep political and financial conspiracy. Can he expose this in time, while Kate fights for her very life in an explosive climax?

Additional Information

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Production country: United Kingdom (UK)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Kinyarwanda (RW)
Translated into 14 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Bosnian (BS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 09/10/2018
Last episode released on: 10/29/2018
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"The Forgiving Earth"
"Η Εξέγερση της Μαύρης Γης"

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WatchPlayStream ID: SHOWS:28632, Added: 09/09/2018, Last updated: 03/23/2024