Apartheid Movies

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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.

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

From award-winning director Nick Broomfield, The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife documents Broomfield's efforts to interview Eugene...

In Cape Town's informal settlements, created to segregate the racialized population during Apartheid, the South African government never built a...

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 first film to ever show what life was in South-Africa under the Apartheid state. The film was released as an anonymous production under the aegis...

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...

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...

The secret history of the negotiations that led to Mandela's release from prison, the ANC becoming the government of South Africa, and the end of...

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

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...

An attempt to express the daily experience of Palestinians excluded by an apartheid regime, exploring various aspects of the Israeli occupation....

In Capetown, South Africa, in September 1966, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was stabbed to death in Parliament. The...