Apartheid Movies

In the insulated bubble of white Apartheid South Africa, Marnus, a sheltered 11-year old boy accuses the grandson of his family’s domestic...

A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.

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

A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the...

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

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...

Documentary made by Yunus Vally, born in the 60s into a Muslim family during the height of the Apartheid era in South Africa, which examines the...

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

In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even...

A petty gangster inevitably becomes involved in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and is forced to choose between individual gain and a united...

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...

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

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...

A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece...

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

Gaza Fights for Freedom depicts the ongoing Great March of Return protests in the Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine, that began in 2018.

Solomon 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...

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...

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...

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