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
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
Mother, You Have Not Died Yet. But You Will. And When You Do, You Will Finally Be Alive Again.
2026 ★ 0.0In the Indian township of Durban, where post-apartheid violence still simmers, Lishana cares for her dying mother. Through her photographic practice, she reflec
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
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
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
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
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
Doomsday Gun
1994 ★ 5.6Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable of shooting at ranges more than 100 miles). When an operati
John Sumner
Having lived in England and South Africa (Cape Town) John arrived in New Zealand with his family at the age of 9. "They totally opposed apartheid, so we left."