Apartheid Movies

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...

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

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

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these...

Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, this documentary is...

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...

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...

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

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

Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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