Apartheid Movies

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...

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

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...

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...

Who is Wouter Basson? Is this white South African just a respected cardiologist without any blood on his hands or on the contrary comparable to...

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

This multi-faceted drama, which depicts a group of intellectual Afrikaners struggling with pertinent moral, ethical and racial issues in apartheid...

In 1948 a new schoolmaster with a Polish background arrives in a small South-African town and is confronted with the Apartheid regime.

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

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...

‘The Great Wall has been completed at its most southerly point.’ So begins Kafka’s short story ‘At the Building of the Great...

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...

Eugene de Kock, nicknamed "Prime Evil," was South Africa's most notorious government assassin under the apartheid regime. A highly decorated and...

The rich land which occupies the southern sub-continent of Africa sustains twenty million people of differing race. The relations among these races...

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...

While international recognition of a Palestinian state has gathered momentum, the situation on the ground is moving in the opposite direction....