Movies: Apartheid

  • 1988
    A World Apart

    A World Apart (1988)

    A World Apart

    6.31988HD

    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 together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not l...

    A World Apart
  • 1996
    Inside

    Inside (1996)

    Inside

    4.61996HD

    A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the questioning is similarly held as prisoner and questioned about his past offenses....

    Inside
  • 1959
    Come Back, Africa

    Come Back, Africa (1959)

    Come Back, Africa

    6.81959HD

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

    Come Back, Africa
  • 2019
    Africa Rising

    Africa Rising (2019)

    Africa Rising

    7.52019HD

    How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a nicer portrait of this amazing continent, historically known for tragic subjects, such as slavery, famine...

    Africa Rising
  • 2018
    Kanarie

    Kanarie (2018)

    Kanarie

    6.62018HD

    Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repress...

    Kanarie
  • 2004
    Red Dust

    Red Dust (2004)

    Red Dust

    5.82004HD

    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 South African politician who was tortured during apartheid....

    Red Dust
  • 2017
    Shepherds and Butchers

    Shepherds and Butchers (2017)

    Shepherds and Butchers

    6.32017HD

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

    Shepherds and Butchers
  • 1997
    Mandela and de Klerk

    Mandela and de Klerk (1997)

    Mandela and de Klerk

    6.51997HD

    Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid....

    Mandela and de Klerk
  • 2008
    Disgrace

    Disgrace (2008)

    Disgrace

    6.22008HD

    Disgrace 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 artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his cherished daughter. After havi...

    Disgrace
  • 2019
    Gaza Fights for Freedom

    Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019)

    Gaza Fights for Freedom

    7.62019HD

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

    Gaza Fights for Freedom
  • 2011
    Black Butterflies

    Black Butterflies (2011)

    Black Butterflies

    5.62011HD

    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 and André Brink she found much love, but no home. Later, in his first speech to the South African Parli...

    Black Butterflies
  • 1987
    Paul Simon | Graceland: The African Concert

    Paul Simon | Graceland: The African Concert (1987)

    Paul Simon | Graceland: The African Concert

    5.51987HD

    Singer Paul Simon and several African musicians perform a concert to benefit victims of apartheid in South Africa....

    Paul Simon | Graceland: The African Concert
  • 1996
    Mandela

    Mandela (1996)

    Mandela

    6.11996HD

    A documentary that chronicles the life of South African leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela is probably best known for his 27 years of imprisonment, and for bringing an end to apartheid. But this film also sheds light on the little-known early period of M...

    Mandela
  • 1951
    Cry, the Beloved Country

    Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)

    Cry, the Beloved Country

    6.11951HD

    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 in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps f...

    Cry, the Beloved Country
  • 2010
    Mrs Mandela

    Mrs Mandela (2010)

    Mrs Mandela

    42010HD

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

    Mrs Mandela
  • 2013
    African Gothic

    African Gothic (2013)

    African Gothic

    102013HD

    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 to prevent him from exposing a dark family secret....

    African Gothic
  • 2007
    Goodbye Bafana

    Goodbye Bafana (2007)

    Goodbye Bafana

    6.82007HD

    The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela....

    Goodbye Bafana
  • 2002
    Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

    Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2002)

    Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

    6.42002HD

    The 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 documentary by Lee Hirsch recounts a fascinating and little-known part of South Africa's po...

    Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
  • 2010
    The 16th Man

    The 16th Man (2010)

    The 16th Man

    6.82010HD

    Rugby Union has long been viewed in South Africa as a game for the white population, and the country’s success in the sport has been a true source of Afrikaner pride. When the 50-year-old policies and entrenched injustices of apartheid were finally o...

    The 16th Man
  • 1965
    Fable

    Fable (1965)

    Fable

    01965HD

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

    Fable