Desert of Lies
1984, English. Directed by Piers Haggard.
The fortunes of two expeditions a century and a half apart become mysteriously linked in the same desolate stretch of Kalahari Desert. In 1848 the Broon family are sent by the London Missionary Society to look for and convert a legendary race of strangely deformed savages. In 1983, a team of three people go off in search of what really happened.
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- 1h 23m
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- English
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- 13 March 1984
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Desert of Lies isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 13 March 1984. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Desert of Lies?
Desert of Lies (1984) was directed by Piers Haggard and stars Mick Ford, Cherie Lunghi, Tom Bell.