Apartheid Movies

During the time of apartheid Nelson Mandela drove around South Africa in a limousine disguised as a chauffeur while organizing the armed struggle...

A portrait of a marginalised couple evicted by forced removal in apartheid South Africa.

Little Bird's first South African production, SOPHIATOWN has won the award for Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival 2003. ...

The Fall tells the remarkable story of a South African barefoot runner, an American track-and-field prodigy, and the events behind one of the most...

Germans colonized the land of Namibia, in southern Africa, during a brief period of time, from 1840 to the end of the World War I. The story of the...

The challenge of the "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" set up by Nelson Mandela in South Africa is to achieve a truly democratic society....

Soraïda is a Palestinian woman living in Ramallah, in the occupied territories. In this city under siege and a strict curfew, she fights her own...

In Capetown, South Africa, in September 1966, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was stabbed to death in Parliament. The...

Documentary made by Yunus Vally, born in the 60s into a Muslim family during the height of the Apartheid era in South Africa, which examines the...

On an isolated farm in Apartheid South Africa two lovers find themselves at risk of losing everything to a big city lawyer; they will stop at nothing...

In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.

In 1980s Apartheid South Africa, a woman's tenuous relationship with her boyfriend is threatened by memories of a past lover, and the possibility of...

The dramatic untold story of 420,000 Cubans– soldiers and teachers, doctors and nurses– who gave everything to end colonial rule and...

In Cape Town's informal settlements, created to segregate the racialized population during Apartheid, the South African government never built a...

The first film to ever show what life was in South-Africa under the Apartheid state. The film was released as an anonymous production under the aegis...

Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source...

At the height of the cold war a struggle broke out between Governments from all over the world as to which position to take about the system of...

When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have never told their...