Apartheid Movies

During his stay in Cape Town as a film student, Shatho Tibone was inspired by an initial casual trip he took to the scenic but informal settlement of...

Rugby Union has long been viewed in South Africa as a game for the white population, and the country’s success in the sport has been a true...

Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important...

A story of love and friendship set against the violence of Apartheid in South Africa. It is a story of the ups and downs of the lives of the three...

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...

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

How Winnie Mandela went from innocent country girl to a fighter against apartheid.

A young, emigrated, South African man comes back to South Africa to sell his mothers farm.

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

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...

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

The Burning is Stephen Frears’ first film, a chilling exploration of racial tensions in Apartheid-era South Africa. On a sweltering...

Felix Moumié was a rebel leader in Cameroon. He was poisoned by thallium in October, 1960 in Geneva. After nearly fifty years, no one has been...

The story begins when Toby (Ivan Jackson), a young English businessman, arrives in South Africa to take charge of a publishing firm. He knows little...

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

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...

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...

How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a...

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

A rural teacher discovers the harsh realities of his South Africa.