Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
Something of Value
TITLE DETAILS

Something of Value

1957-05-08 · 113 min · ★ 5.5

Drama · War

As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Richard Brooks
Production companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released

Top Cast

Rock HudsonRock HudsonPeter McKenzie
Dana WynterDana WynterHolly McKenzie
Sidney PoitierSidney PoitierKimani Wa Karanja
Juano HernándezJuano HernándezNjogu - Oath Giver
William MarshallWilliam MarshallLeader - Intellectual in Suit
Robert BeattyRobert BeattyJeff Newton, Elizabeth's Husband
Walter FitzgeraldWalter FitzgeraldHenry McKenzie, A White Settler
Michael PateMichael PateJoe Matson, A Farmer
Wendy HillerWendy HillerElizabeth Newton
Ivan DixonIvan DixonLathela - Loyal Gun-Bearer
Ken RenardKen RenardKaranja - Father of Kimani
Frederick O'NealFrederick O'NealAdam Marenga - Mau-Mau Leader
Angela CartwrightAngela CartwrightCaroline
Juanita MooreJuanita MooreTribal Woman
Paulene MyersPaulene MyersKikuyu Woman
Wilton GraffWilton GraffCapt. Hillary
Barbara MorrisonBarbara MorrisonNurse
Madame Sul-Te-WanMadame Sul-Te-WanMidwife (Uncredited)
Samadu JacksonWitch Doctor

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Rental

Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube

Purchase

Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube

View authorized watch options on TMDb

Recommendations

Waiting for Anya
★ 6.3
Waiting for Anya2020Drama · War

During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
★ 6.8
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell1955Drama · War

A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.

The Last Rifleman
★ 6.6
The Last Rifleman2023Drama · War

A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.

The Truth About Emanuel
★ 6.0
The Truth About Emanuel2013Drama

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

Zulu
★ 7.4
Zulu1964Drama · War

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.

Cast a Giant Shadow
★ 6.3
Cast a Giant Shadow1966Drama · War

An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his Jewish heritage. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander of the Israeli forces just before the war begins.

The Devil's Brigade
★ 6.3
The Devil's Brigade1968Drama · War

At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite Canadian commandos and undisciplined American soldiers. With Maj. Alan Crown leading the Canadians and Maj. Cliff Bricker the acting head of the American contingent, there is initial tension -- but the team comes together when given a daunting mission that few would dare to attempt.

Skater Girl
★ 7.2
Skater Girl2021Drama

Prerna, a teenager growing up in rural India, comes of age when she’s introduced to the sport of skateboarding. As a result, she has to fight the odds to follow her dreams and compete in the national championship.

Radium Girls
★ 6.6
Radium Girls2020Drama

Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.

Won't Back Down
★ 6.2
Won't Back Down2012Drama

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.

The Color of Friendship
★ 6.7
The Color of Friendship2000Drama

Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.

The One That Got Away
★ 6.8
The One That Got Away1957Drama · War

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.

The Guns of Navarone
★ 7.3
The Guns of Navarone1961Drama · War

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

Eleanor the Great
★ 6.8
Eleanor the Great2025Drama

94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

Too Late Blues
★ 6.4
Too Late Blues1961Drama

Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his masculinity is thrown into question following a violent brawl.

Ballistic
★ 5.8
Ballistic2026Drama

When a soldier's mother discovers the bullet that killed her son in Afghanistan was made at the factory where she works, she sets out on a path of revenge against those responsible.

The Long Voyage Home
★ 6.6
The Long Voyage Home1940Drama · War

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.

Blue Chips
★ 6.1
Blue Chips1994Drama

Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.

Little Lord Fauntleroy
★ 7.3
Little Lord Fauntleroy1980Drama

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.

Plunder Road
★ 6.9
Plunder Road1957Drama

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

Similar titles

The White Masai
★ 6.3
The White Masai2005Drama

A girl, Carola, whose vacation in Kenya takes an interesting turn when she becomes infatuated with a Masai. Carola decides to leave her boyfriend to stay with her lover. There, she has to adapt to the Masai's way of life and get used to their food which includes milk mixed with blood. She also has to face her husband's attitude towards women and what he expects from a wife. Nonetheless, Carola is welcomed warmly into the tribe she has chosen to join.

Yeelen
★ 6.6
Yeelen1987Drama

A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.

Wajan
★ 7.0
Wajan1933Drama

Wajan, the son of Nudonk, a witch, is beset with difficulties. His mother is in ill favor with the Balinese natives who want to get rid of her, and the hand of Sari, a native chieftain's daughter, will not be his until this is accomplished. How he manages to save his mother and also win Sari is unfolded in the film.

Sundown
★ 5.5
Sundown1941Drama · War

Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.

The Lion
★ 5.6
The Lion1962Drama

Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are reinforced when it is revealed that her daughter's best friend in the whole world is a fully grown lion. Worried that her daughter may be turning into a savage, she sends for her former husband, Tina's biological father, in the hope that he can take her back to civilization (in this case rural Connecticut). But it seems as though Tina's mother wants something more than a civilized upbringing for her daughter.

Paradise: Love
★ 6.6
Paradise: Love2012Drama

On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as "Sugar Mamas" —European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise, moving from beach to beach.

Out of Africa
★ 7.2
Out of Africa1985Drama

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.

Nowhere in Africa
★ 7.0
Nowhere in Africa2001Drama

A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.

The Constant Gardener
★ 7.0
The Constant Gardener2005Drama

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.

Born Free
★ 6.8
Born Free1966Drama

At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede in the nearby village, head warden John Kendall demands the young lion either be trained to survive in the wilds of the Serengeti or be sent to a zoo.

Savage Harvest
★ 6.2
Savage Harvest1981Drama

A family in Africa is besieged by a group of lions, driven to desperation by the drought.

A New Christmas
★ 5.6
A New Christmas2019Drama

A grieving man faces the holidays for the first time without his beloved mother, who died unexpectedly last Christmas Eve.

Mogambo
★ 6.4
Mogambo1953Drama

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.

Born Free: A New Adventure
★ 6.4
Born Free: A New Adventure1996Drama

Another thrilling adventure for Elsa the lioness as she works her magic on two teenagers struggling with changes in their life.

The First Grader
★ 7.1
The First Grader2010Drama

The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

Living Free
★ 6.6
Living Free1972Drama

When Elsa's three mischievious cubs begin wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.

Bwana Devil
★ 4.8
Bwana Devil1952Drama

British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone on his crew.

Cheetah
★ 6.2
Cheetah1989Drama

An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. However, when the animal is captured by poachers planning to race it against greyhounds, the two city kids, together with a young African goat herder they befriended, head off into the wild to rescue the cheetah.

Stories of Our Lives
★ 0.5
Stories of Our Lives2014Drama

Created by the members of a Nairobi-based arts collective — who have removed their names from the film for fear of reprisal — this anthology film that dramatizes true-life stories from Kenya’s oppressed LGBTQ community is both a labour of love and a bold act of militancy.

Sioux City
★ 5.1
Sioux City1994Drama

A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.