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1. The Bang Bang Club (2010)
R | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
A drama based on the true-life experiences of four combat photographers capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa.
Director: Steven Silver | Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch, Neels van Jaarsveld
Votes: 11,555
2. The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club (2004)
27 min | Documentary, Short
In 1994, a South African photojournalist received the Pulitzer Prize for his picture of a starving girl stalked by a vulture. Weeks later, he carried out a terrible, desperate act--an act that embodied the anguish of an entire nation.
Director: Dan Krauss
Votes: 172
3. Winnie Mandela (2011)
R | 104 min | Biography, Drama, History
A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.
Director: Darrell Roodt | Stars: Jennifer Hudson, Terrence Howard, Elias Koteas, Wendy Crewson
Votes: 1,000
4. The Fourth Reich (1990)
183 min | Biography
Robey Leibbrandt was a South African boxer who became fascinated with Nazi ideology during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. In1939 he led an operation to overthrow the pro-Allied government of General Jan Smuts.
Director: Manie van Rensburg | Stars: Marius Weyers, Ryno Hattingh, Grethe Fox, Percy Sieff
Votes: 11
5. The Regiment (1972– )
50 min | Drama, History, War
Following the career of Richard Gaunt, (Christopher Cazenove), of the Cotswolds Regiment, from leaving the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst as a Lieutenant, through the Boer War to service as a Captain on the North West Frontier.
Stars: Christopher Cazenove, Denis Lill, Wendy Allnutt, Bernard Brown
Votes: 11
6. Tainted Heroes (2016)
120 min | Documentary
Tainted Heroes tells the story of how the African National Congress (ANC), rose to power in the aftermath of the Soweto Uprisings in 1976.
Director: Elrich Yssel | Star: Katlego Chale
Votes: 35
7. Feast of the Uninvited (2008– )
Drama, History, War
Stars: Cobus Rossouw, Louis van Niekerk, Marius Weyers, Rika Sennett
Votes: 17
8. I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured: Identity Crisis at the Cape of Good Hope (2009 Video)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, History
In the wake of one of the greatest failed social experiments in the history of mankind, this is a look at the legacy of Apartheid from the viewpoint of the Cape Coloured.
Director: Kiersten Chace | Stars: Michael Adams, Sabrina Adams, James Bergmann, Desire Diedericks
Votes: 8
9. Riemvasmaak (2008– )
Drama, History
Stars: Denise Newman, Ben Kruger, Errol Schwartz, Richard van der Westhuizen
10.
Africa's Great Civilizations (2017)
Episode:
Commerce and the Clash of Civilizations
(2017)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History
As nations like Ethiopia, Ghana, Zanzibar and South Africa begin their economic rise thanks to their natural resources, the late 19th century Scramble for Africa violently splits the continent into European colonies.
Director: Karen McGann | Stars: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Malik Kaddu
Votes: 25