Where to watch John Akomfrah in the UK
Find every John Akomfrah film and TV show streaming, free, or available to rent in the UK. Updated daily — verified 11 August 2026.
John Akomfrah, CBE (born 4 May 1957) is a British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".
John Akomfrah films streaming in the UK
Most-watched films featuring John Akomfrah, available across UK streaming, rent and buy.
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- Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013) Director
- Handsworth Songs (1986) Director
- Testament (1988) Director
- Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks (2025) Cast
- Acts Of Faith (2016) Director
- Riot (1999) Director
- Mnemosyne (2010) Writer
- Transfigured Night (2014) Director
- Tropikos (2016) Director
- Becoming Wind (2023) Director
- Genome Chronicles (2009) Director
- Four Nocturnes (2019) Director
- Notes for a Return (2013) Thanks
- Arcadia (2023) Director
- Scala!!! (2024) as Self
- Five Murmurations (2021) Director
- Numen (2014) Director
- The March (2013) Director
- Precarity (2017) Director
- Triptych (2021) Director
- Purple (2017) Director
- Hauntologies (2012) Director
- Vertigo Sea (2015) Director
- A Touch of the Tar Brush (1991) Director
- Peripeteia (2012) Director
- Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz (2003) Director
- Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire (1983) Director
- This Is My Africa (2008) as Self
- At the Graveside of Tarkovsky (2012) Director
- Listening All Night to the Rain (2024) Director
- The Last Angel of History (1996) Director
- The Call of Mist (1998) Director
- The Nine Muses (2010) Writer
- Memory Room 451 (1996) Director
- Speak Like a Child (1998) Director
- The Stuart Hall Project (2013) Director
- Martin Luther King and the March on Washington (2013) Director
- The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong (1999) Director
- Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993) Director
- Mimesis: African Soldier (2018) Director
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Most-watched John Akomfrah films currently: Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013), Handsworth Songs (1986), Testament (1988), Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks (2025), Acts Of Faith (2016).
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