HISTORICAL MOVIES: SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa:
Shaka Zulu (1987) -- 1816-1828, feared leader of the South African Zulus
Shaka Zulu: The Last Great Warrior (2005) -- follow up to Shaka Zulu (1987)
Zulu Dawn (1979) -- prequel to Zulu; massacre of the British
Zulu (1964) -- 1879 defense of the British Army outpost at Rorke's Drift against the Zulus
Rhodes of Africa (1936) -- British imperialist and developer of South Africa, Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia
Rhodes (1996) TV --
Untamed (1955) -- Boer trek through hostile S. African county
Breaker Morant (1980) -- 1901 in the Transvaal, South Africa; during Boer War
Young Winston (1972) -- Churchill that is
Gandhi (1982) -- first part deals with the early Gandhi, before 1915
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Cry, The Beloved Country (1995)-- tale of reconciliation between S. African black minister's son who murders white man; James Earl Jones
The Quarry (2000) -- racism leads to the arrest of the wrong man, a black man, for the murder of a rural gay pastor
Dingaka (1965) -- white and black culture contrast in South Africa
Sarafina (1992) -- black student resistance in Soweto, South Africa
Bopha! (1993) -- black policeman in South Africa awakens to the fact that he works for a racist organization
Cry Freedom (1987) -- Stephen Biko 1975-77, black leader of resistance to apartheid
X The Biko Inquest (1984) -- based on inquest into the Biko assassination
Mandela (1987) -- Danny Glover
Mandela and De Klerk (1997) -- the two who worked out a political answer to apartheid
The Color of Freedom (a.k.a. Goodbye Bafana) (2007) -- story of the special relationship between Mandela and James Gregory, his censor officer and prison guard
A Dry, White Season (1989) -- a white teacher finally awakens to the realities of the brutality of the apartheid system in South Africa, 1976
In My Country (2004) -- story set during the time of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings
X Drum (2004) -- apartheid and the forced removal of residents from Sophiatown (currently unavailable)
A World Apart (1988) -- a white teenage daughter comes to terms with her father and mother's work against apartheid in South Africa
Catch a Fire (2006) -- 1980, South African wrongly accused of a crime, is tortured and becomes radicalized by his experience
Beat the Drum (2003) -- a Zulu boy whose village has been devastated by AIDS goes to Johannesburg to find his long-lost uncle. Actors Junior Singo, Owen Sejake.
The World Unseen (2007) -- the Indian community and its reaction to apartheid illustrated by the problems faced by two women establishing a relationship
Promised Land (2002) -- post-Apartheid era where some whites stick to their old racist ways
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