Apartheid Movies

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

In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living...

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

Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's...

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

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...

A South African librarian prepares for the return of the remains of his brother who died in exile.

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

During apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s, two lovers -- a 16-year-old Caucasian girl and a 20-year-old African man -- meet a tragic end.

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

Stop The Tour discovers the extraordinary story of how sport helped bring an end to Apartheid which paved the way towards the multi racial 2019...

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

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

A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the...

The struggle to eradicate apartheid in South Africa has been chronicled over time, but no one has addressed the vital role music plays in this...

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...

When the remains of an apartheid-era policeman are discovered 60 years after he went missing, a retired singer revisits her past to help with the...

A documentary that chronicles the life of South African leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela is probably best known for his 27 years of imprisonment, and...

Told through the stories of five former prisoners, this is the story of political activists sent to the notorious Robben Island prison in the 1960s...