Apartheid Movies

Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

A 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...

Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important...

On an isolated farm in Apartheid South Africa two lovers find themselves at risk of losing everything to a big city lawyer; they will stop at nothing...

How Winnie Mandela went from innocent country girl to a fighter against apartheid.

In 1980s Apartheid South Africa, a woman's tenuous relationship with her boyfriend is threatened by memories of a past lover, and the possibility of...

South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country...

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

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

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...

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

A South African librarian prepares for the return of the remains of his brother who died in exile.

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

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

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

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...

Exiled from his native South Africa, South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela is pulled between two worlds. In the late 1980s, the Anti-Apartheid...

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

The story begins when Toby (Ivan Jackson), a young English businessman, arrives in South Africa to take charge of a publishing firm. He knows little...

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...