apartheid movies page 2

Kanarie (2018)
6.2 / 10

Music, Drama

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

Kalushi : The Story of Solomon Mahlangu (2017)
6.1 / 10

Drama, Thriller

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...

In My Country (2004)
6.2 / 10

Romance, Drama

An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.

The 16th Man (2010)
6.5 / 10

Documentary

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...

Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)
6.7 / 10

Documentary, History

Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18th, 1961. Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General, mysteriously dies in a plane...

Uproar (2023)
5.571 / 10

Drama

A 17 year-old student is forced to get off the fence he has actively sat on all his life to stand up for himself, his whanau (family) and his future...

Black Butterflies (2011)
5.8 / 10

Drama, Romance

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...

Endgame (2009)
5.8 / 10

Crime, Drama

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...

Mrs Mandela (2010)
4 / 10

TV Movie, Drama

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

Amok (1983)
0 / 10

Drama

A rural teacher discovers the harsh realities of his South Africa.

Promised Land (2002)
0 / 10

Drama

A young, emigrated, South African man comes back to South Africa to sell his mothers farm.

Mapantsula (1988)
6.2 / 10

Crime, Drama

During demonstrations in apartheid-era South Africa, the police arrest Panic, a “mapantsula” or petty gangster, while rounding up activists. His...

Inside (1996)
4.6 / 10

Crime, Drama, TV Movie

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

Sophiatown (2003)
2 / 10

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

Fable (1965)
0 / 10

Drama, TV Movie

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

Longsince (2022)
0 / 10

Drama, History

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...

Come Back, Africa (1959)
6.7 / 10

Documentary, Drama

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

Dilemma (1962)
6.1 / 10

Drama

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...

The Fall (2016)
8.6 / 10

Documentary

The Fall tells the remarkable story of a South African barefoot runner, an American track-and-field prodigy, and the events behind one of the most...

Africa Rising (2019)
7.5 / 10

Documentary, History, Music

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