Apartheid Movies

When a highly trained bodyguard is hired to protect a wealthy businessman’s pampered daughter, he will have his work cut out for him. The...

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

Soraïda is a Palestinian woman living in Ramallah, in the occupied territories. In this city under siege and a strict curfew, she fights her own...

In the year of Nelson Mandela’s centenary, Glasgow, Love and Apartheid is the story of one family’s fight against apartheid from Scotland...

Nick Broomfield tries to interview Eugene Terre'Blanche, leader of the sinister neo-nazi AWB Afrikaner Party in South Africa. Cameras capture awkward...

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...

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...

I traveled to South Africa to find a white family living on a desolate farm. I wanted to film how they faced the new days of equality after the fall...

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...