The Vault
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
2024 ★ 7.5More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost, esp
The Bang Bang Club
2011 ★ 6.6In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroe
Disgrace
2008 ★ 6.2Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of ar
The World Unseen
2007 ★ 7.0A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era. Topic: Film "The World Unseen" (2007). Role: Meticulou
Kalushi: The Story of Solomon Mahlangu
2017 ★ 5.4Solomon Mahlangu is a Mamelodi township schoolboy-hawker who, after the events of June 16th joins the military wing of the ANC to fight against the brutal oppre
A Million Colours
2011 ★ 7.2A story of love and friendship set against the violence of Apartheid in South Africa. It is a story of the ups and downs of the lives of the three main characte
The Forgiven
2018 ★ 6.1After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption. Task: Write a factual, original 150-190 word overview of th
Skin
2009 ★ 6.4Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era. Skin is a drama film released in t
Free Nelson Mandela
2026 ★ 3.0The series documents Mandela’s journey from activist to revolutionary, from prisoner to negotiator and how he led South Africa to democracy from a prison cell.
Cry Freedom
1987 ★ 7.0A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a whit
Red Dust
2004 ★ 5.8Sarah 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 South Africa
Namibia: The Spirit of Wilderness
2016 ★ 6.2With more than 300 days a year, the sun dominates this country so much that it’s even shining from their flag. It’s a barren land, sometimes it’s like it’s from
Amandla
2022 ★ 5.9Amandla is an anti-apartheid resistance slogan and means power. Apartheid in South Africa is still in full force when, in 1987, the two brothers Impi and Nkosan
Sarafina!
1992 ★ 6.1A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance
A United Kingdom
2016 ★ 6.7The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the fac
Invictus
2009 ★ 7.2Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people to
Escape from Pretoria
2020 ★ 7.2South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan
A Dry White Season
1989 ★ 6.7During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002 ★ 6.5The struggle to eradicate apartheid in South Africa has been chronicled over time, but no one has addressed the vital role music plays in this challenge. This d
Cry, the Beloved Country
1951 ★ 6.3In 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 in squalor
Musk
2026 ★ 7.0An incisive look behind the legend of Elon Musk, the world’s most heralded 'inventor-entrepreneur' who has enormous influence on the world in which we all live.
In My Country
2004 ★ 6.0An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings. Task: Write a factu
Studying Under the Barrel of a Gun
2026 ★ 0.0In the late 1980s, the University of the North in Limpopo is militarily occupied by the Apartheid government. As soldiers patrol lecture halls, raid residences
The Wilby Conspiracy
1975 ★ 6.4Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds himself almo