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79

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4.0

age 12+

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

poster

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7.3

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/14/

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3.0

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost, especially the thousands of pictures he shot in the U.S. Told through Cole’s own writings, the stories of those closest to him, and the lens of his uncompromising work, the film is a reintroduction of a pivotal Black artist to a new generation and will unravel the mystery of his missing negatives.

poster

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7.1

/1952/

68

/24/

63

/31/

3.4

/609/

91

/11/

80

/19/

4.0

A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?

poster

76

7.5

/2960/

73

/125/

68

/42/

3.6

/3686/

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75

/15/

76

/23/

3.5

Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies mysteriously in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case in search of definitive closure.

poster

75

7.4

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71

/19/

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3.0

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 challenge. This documentary by Lee Hirsch recounts a fascinating and little-known part of South Africa's political history through archival footage, interviews and, of course, several mesmerizing musical performances.

poster

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7.8

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78

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93

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48

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3.0

age 10+

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.

poster

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7.3

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73

/4694/

71

/4272/

3.4

/109115/

76

/238/

75

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74

/34/

3.5

age 12+

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

poster

72

7.5

/899/

75

/34/

70

/19/

4.1

/3835/

90

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72

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80

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1.5

Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, this documentary is accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.

poster

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7.4

/15235/

73

/309/

69

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3.6

/6161/

73

/26/

87

/394/

59

/15/

2.5

age 12+

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.

poster

70

7.0

/429/

64

/20/

61

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3.4

/253/

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3.0

A documentary that chronicles the life of South African leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela is probably best known for his 27 years of imprisonment, and for bringing an end to apartheid. But this film also sheds light on the little-known early period of Mandela's life.

poster

70

6.5

/6012/

60

/129/

62

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3.2

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83

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62

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71

/18/

4.0

Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his cherished daughter. After having an affair with a student, he moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.

poster

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6.5

/1075/

66

/13/

53

/11/

3.4

/233/

80

/10/

67

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3.5

In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid movement, he finds himself torn between his family and what he believes is his duty.

poster

69

6.8

/49105/

71

/3624/

71

/1440/

3.3

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/45/

86

/101/

56

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age 14+

South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.

poster

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6.8

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63

/33/

67

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3.3

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74

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71

/14/

2.5

A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.

poster

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6.8

/4747/

68

/219/

66

/91/

3.6

/7718/

91

/97/

73

/12/

69

/12/

1.0

age 17+

A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality.

poster

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6.3

/2436/

68

/58/

61

/46/

3.6

/1551/

60

/10/

86

/229/

2.0

age 15+

The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.

poster

65

6.7

/20582/

66

/908/

66

/505/

3.3

/5645/

60

/70/

As a child, Ali Neuman narrowly escaped being murdered by Inkhata, a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Only he and his mother survived the carnage of those years. But as with many survivors, the psychological scars remain.

poster

64

7.1

/11338/

74

/250/

75

/147/

3.4

/4713/

35

/17/

87

/784/

40

/22/

2.5

PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel teaches him how to box with the motto “fight with your fists and lead with your heart”. As he grows to manhood, PK uses these words to take on the system and the injustices he sees around him - and finds that one person really can make a difference.

poster

64

7.1

/29965/

71

/1031/

68

/561/

3.3

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61

/145/

68

/640/

60

/32/

2.0

age 15+

A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.

poster

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59

6.7

/11266/

69

/171/

62

/139/

3.2

/1346/

75

/141/

71

/783/

62

/32/

age 15+

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.

poster

59

6.9

/11923/

69

/379/

65

/174/

3.4

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/49/

60

/177/

48

/15/

2.0

age 17+

In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.

poster

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6.0

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60

/49/

59

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3.1

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2.5

An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.

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7.1

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3.3

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41

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55

/20/

The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.

poster

75

51

6.7

/1854/

69

/142/

60

/23/

3.6

/6140/

100

/25/

84

/11/

age 13+

A 17 year-old student is forced to get off the fence he has actively sat on all his life to stand up for himself, his whanau (family) and his future in this heartwarming story of identity.

poster

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47

6.8

/3244/

70

/186/

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/75/

3.4

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/10/

53

/17/

42

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A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.

poster

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46

6.2

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61

/91/

58

/49/

3.3

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71

/7/

58

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55

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The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National Congress (ANC) takes up arms against apartheid and the country tumbles toward insurrection. A British mining concern is convinced that their interests would be better served in a stable South Africa and they quietly dispatch Michael Young, their head of public affairs, to open an unofficial dialogue between the bitter rivals. Assembling a reluctant yet brilliant team to pave the way to reconciliation by confronting obstacles that initially seem insurmountable, Young places his trust in ANC leader Thabo Mbeki and Afrikaner philosophy professor Willie Esterhuyse. It is their empathy that will ultimately serve as the catalyst for change by proving more powerful than the terrorist bombs that threaten to disrupt the peaceful dialogue.

poster

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43

6.2

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55

/36/

3.3

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/13/

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/26/

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/9/

Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and André Brink she found much love, but no home. Later, in his first speech to the South African Parliament Nelson Mandela read her poem "The Dead Child of Nyanga" and addressed her as one of the finest poets of South Africa.

poster

65

40

6.7

/2628/

63

/39/

58

/41/

3.3

/483/

73

/102/

Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black South African politician who was tortured during apartheid.

poster

79

34

7.5

/779/

76

/20/

64

/20/

3.7

/764/

100

/12/

89

/5/

Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.

poster

70

32

7.0

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66

/12/

61

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3.5

/675/

92

/13/

65

/9/

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 squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.

poster

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7.8

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75

/22/

85

/10/

83

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 memorable moments in sporting history – the 1984 LA Olympics. The film charts two journeys, from rural South Africa under apartheid and the rolling hills of Southern California, to the starting line of the women’s 3,000 metres. It uncovers a tale of betrayal and exploitation, of the blurred lines between politics, media and sport, and of the dedication and sacrifice required to compete at the highest level. It’s a story that split governments and divided nations, but at its heart is a tale of two young women who, despite the turmoil in their lives, just wanted to run.

poster

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6.7

/152/

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/6/

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/5/

South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country house near Johannesburg. The detainees, along with Nelson Mandela, imprisoned since 1962, are charged with serious crimes for their radical activism against the apartheid regime.

poster

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28

7.1

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Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

poster

70

13

7.1

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66

/12/

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3.6

/548/

80

/4/

Nick Broomfield tries to interview Eugene Terre'Blanche, leader of the sinister neo-nazi AWB Afrikaner Party in South Africa. Cameras capture awkward interactions with skittish AWB supporters, combat training of militant youth, and the coveted interview itself. Broomfield's access to these events is made possible by the leader's driver, whose wavering allegiance to the movement is explored as well.

poster

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9

6.6

/492/

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/8/

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/13/

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/3/

Solomon Mahlangu is a Mamelodi township schoolboy-hawker who, after the events of June 16th joins the military wing of the ANC to fight against the brutal oppression of the Apartheid regime and ends up becoming an icon of South Africa's liberation.

poster

?

6.2

/16/

60

/2/

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 investigation. But how much does she know, and what is she holding back?

poster

?

7.7

/223/

70

/1/

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.

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80

/1/

The story of anti-apartheid activist John Harris - who was hanged after a fatal bombing in Johannesburg in 1964 - told by those who knew him best and through newly discovered home movies.

poster

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8.7

/17/

90

/1/

The story of the Londoners recruited to be freedom fighters during the South African apartheid during the 1960s.

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7.4

/7/

Explores the history of the Afrikaners and Afrikaner nationalism, and the development of apartheid and its relevance to South Africa's political situation today.

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80

/1/

When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have never told their personal stories before, confront its deep and dark racist past.

poster

?

5.9

/41/

10

/1/

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

poster

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6.1

/14/

66

/3/

50

/1/

A fascinating documentary about Johannesburg. It is one of the most violent cities in the world yet the filmmakers bravely probe into some of the most depraved areas of the city that few would have the courage to venture into. This gives fascinating insight as to how Johanneburg has evolved since the end of apartheid and look at the impact the preparation for the FIFA World Cup in 2010 is having on the residents surrounding the stadiums.

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?

7.4

/27/

80

/1/

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

poster

?

6.8

/31/

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 impact that the discriminatory laws of the state - specifically the so-called Immorality Act that determined who you could love and the censorship regulations that clearly defined what was deemed desirable - had on his life. It is also his attempt to fathom how he could have been an ardent Trotskyite who secretly fancied blonde Afrikaans beauty queens. (Storyville)

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?

6.1

/47/

60

Adaptation of award winning novel by Marlene van Niekerk. Triomf is about the ultimate dysfunctional family, the Benades, poor white working class Afrikaner trailer trash on the eve of the first democratic election in South Africa.

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20

/1/

In Capetown, South Africa, in September 1966, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was stabbed to death in Parliament. The course of South African history was changed by the assassin, Dimitri Tsafendas, who was written off as mad and condemned to twenty-eight years of imprisonment. A Question of Madness tells the extraordinary human story of a man, born of a black mother, but classified white, who travelled the world in hopeless search of sanctuary - eventually returning to the land of apartheid to wreak vengeance on the one who symbolized the racism which had haunted his life.

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46

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6.0

/137/

10

/1/

70

/1/

The Burning is Stephen Frears’ first film, a chilling exploration of racial tensions in Apartheid-era South Africa. On a sweltering summer’ day, a wealthy white matriarch insists on taking her household on a planned trip to the country, in spite of their urgent warnings that an uprising is underway.

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