Apartheid Movies

  • 2017
    Shepherds and Butchers

    Shepherds and Butchers

    Shepherds and Butchers

    6.32017HD

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

    Shepherds and Butchers
  • 2024
    Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

    Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

    Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

    7.652024HD

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

    Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
  • 2015
    The Great Wall

    The Great Wall

    The Great Wall

    4.72015HD

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

    The Great Wall
  • 2004
    Red Dust

    Red Dust

    Red Dust

    5.82004HD

    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...

    Red Dust
  • 2018
    Kanarie

    Kanarie

    Kanarie

    6.62018HD

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

    Kanarie
  • 1997
    Mandela and de Klerk

    Mandela and de Klerk

    Mandela and de Klerk

    6.51997HD

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

    Mandela and de Klerk
  • 1996
    Mandela

    Mandela

    Mandela

    6.11996HD

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

    Mandela
  • 2007
    Goodbye Bafana

    Goodbye Bafana

    Goodbye Bafana

    6.82007HD

    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...

    Goodbye Bafana
  • 1951
    Cry, the Beloved Country

    Cry, the Beloved Country

    Cry, the Beloved Country

    6.11951HD

    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...

    Cry, the Beloved Country
  • 2019
    Africa Rising

    Africa Rising

    Africa Rising

    7.52019HD

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

    Africa Rising
  • 2010
    The 16th Man

    The 16th Man

    The 16th Man

    6.82010HD

    Rugby Union has long been viewed in South Africa as a game for the white population, and the country’s success in the sport has been a true...

    The 16th Man
  • 1987
    Paul Simon | Graceland: The African Concert

    Paul Simon | Graceland: The African Concert

    Paul Simon | Graceland: The African Concert

    5.51987HD

    Singer Paul Simon and several African musicians perform a concert to benefit victims of apartheid in South Africa.

    Paul Simon | Graceland: The African Concert
  • 1965
    Fable

    Fable

    Fable

    01965HD

    In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.

    Fable
  • 2011
    Black Butterflies

    Black Butterflies

    Black Butterflies

    5.6712011HD

    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...

    Black Butterflies
  • 1996
    Inside

    Inside

    Inside

    4.61996HD

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

    Inside
  • 2014
    Concerning Violence

    Concerning Violence

    Concerning Violence

    72014HD

    Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in...

    Concerning Violence
  • 2009
    Endgame

    Endgame

    Endgame

    5.82009HD

    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...

    Endgame
  • 2022
    1960

    1960

    1960

    62022HD

    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...

    1960
  • 2016
    The Fall

    The Fall

    The Fall

    8.52016HD

    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...

    The Fall
  • 2022
    No Māori Allowed

    No Māori Allowed

    No Māori Allowed

    82022HD

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

    No Māori Allowed