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Haiti was the first free Black republic, founded in 1804 by formerly enslaved people who defeated Napoleon's army. Two centuries of debt, dictatorship and disaster followed, and its stories carry that weight like nowhere else. The Serpent and the Rainbow and 1804: The Hidden History of Haiti approach from opposite sides. Open Haiti on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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10 famous stories set in Haiti

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Browse 22 books, 19 movies and 4 games set in Haiti.

Quantum of Solace

Quantum of Solace

Eon Productions-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Columbia Pictures-B22
movie

Quantum of Solace continues the adventures of James Bond after Casino Royale. Betrayed by Vesper the woman he loved 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the…

Setting: Italy; Haiti; Austria; Russia; UKTime Period: Contemporary
1804: The Hidden History of Haiti

1804: The Hidden History of Haiti

King Flex Entertainment
movie

1804 is a feature length documentary film about the untold history of the Haitian revolution

Setting: HaitiTime Period: 1804
The Serpent and the Rainbow

The Serpent and the Rainbow

Universal Pictures
movie

A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug the cynical scientist enters the…

Setting: HaitiTime Period: 1988
Call of Duty: Black Ops II

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

game

Black Ops II is the first game in the Call of Duty franchise to feature future warfare technology and the first to present branching storylines driven by player choice as well as selecting weapons before starting story…

Setting: USA; Haiti; Yemen; Afghanistan; Nicaragua; Panama; AngolaTime Period: 2025; 1980s
Call of Duty: Black Ops II

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

game

Rooted in near-future fiction, Call of Duty: Black Ops II propels players into a visual landscape in an epic single player campaign highlighted by branching storylines and non-linear missions. The game is a re-imagined…

Setting: Los Angeles, California,USA;Haiti;Myanmar;Afghanistan;PanamaTime Period: 2025
White Zombie

White Zombie

Victor & Edward Halperin Productions
movie

In Haiti a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance only to have the madman decide to keep the woman for himself as a zombie.

Setting: HaitiTime Period: 1930s
Zombi Child

Zombi Child

Les Films du Bal-Playtime-My New Picture-ARTE France Cinéma
movie

Haiti 1962: A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris 55 years later at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school a Haitian girl confesses an old…

Setting: Haiti; Paris, FranceTime Period: 1962; 2010s
Bending the Arc

Bending the Arc

Impact Partners-JustFilms / Ford Foundation-Urban Landscapes-Scout & Scholar-Abramorama-Sundance Institute
movie

About the extraordinary doctors and activists—including Paul Farmer Jim Yong Kim and Ophelia Dahl—whose work 30 years ago to save lives in a rural Haitian village grew into a global battle in the halls of power for the…

Setting: Haiti; GlobalTime Period: Contemporary
Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich

Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich

by Peter Schweizer
book

In 2000, Bill and Hillary Clinton owed millions of dollars in legal debt. Since then, they’ve earned over $130 million. Where did the money come from? Most people assume that the Clintons amassed their wealth through…

Setting: Kazakhstan; Colombia; Haiti; USATime Period: 2000s-2015
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
book

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological…

Setting: Easter Island; Greenland; Rwanda; Haiti; China; Australia; Montana, USATime Period: UNKNOWN

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