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1) Lucky
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104, 20 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A 10-year-old South African orphan leaves his Zulu village to make his own life in the city, only to find no one will help him, except a formidable Indian woman.
2) Catch a fire
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 37 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
3) Disgrace
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010], c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Professor David Lurie is a man whose world is shattered when he is fired for seducing a college student. He finds peace at his estranged daughter's modest farm in South Africa until a horrific incident of terror and violence forces Lurie to confront his beliefs and the disturbing racial complexities of the new South Africa.
4) The wound
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Xolani, a quiet, sensitive, closeted factory worker returns home to be a guide in his tribe's coming-of-age circumcision ritual in the mountains, one of the initiates discovers his secret relationship with another guide, putting both of them at risk.
5) District 9
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom.
6) Kanarie
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the height of apartheid, a small-town boy serves his compulsory military training in the South African Defence Force Choir and Concert group known as the "Canaries."
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When anti-apartheid activist Diana Roth defies the South African government and is arrested under the 90-day Detention Act, her thirteen-year-old daughter Molly begins to see the reality of life just outside her protected white enclave.
8) Skin
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Despite being born to Afrikaner parents, Sandra faces prejudice from her community due to her dark skin and African features. Torn between her family and the man she loves, Sandra must overcome the racial intolerance of her society in this uplifting true story.
10) Invictus
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Films
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society. Idris Elba stars as Nelson Mandela with Justin Chadwick directing.
12) Moffie
Formats
Description
The year is 1981 and South Africa's white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of sixteen, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the Apartheid regime. The threat of communism and 'die swart gevaar' (the black danger) is at an all-time high. But that's not the only danger Nicholas faces. He must survive the brutality of the army,...
13) Duma
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The powerful tale of an unbreakable bond of friendship between a cheetah named Duma and a courageous young boy named Xan. Xan faces the true test of love when he must cross the wilds of Southern Africa to return his best friend to his rightful home.
16) Cry freedom
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of the friendship between black activist Stephen Biko and white newspaper editor Donald Woods, who was instrumental in bringing Biko's anti-apartheid message to the international community.
17) Beast
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Recently widowed Dr. Nate Daniels and his two teenage daughters travel to a South African game reserve managed by Martin Battles, an old family friend and wildlife biologist. However, what begins as a journey of healing soon turns into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of bloodthirsty poachers, begins stalking them.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A farmer moves his family to South Africa and suffers a series of seemingly insurmountable losses. Through unlikely friendships and much needed divine intervention, he discovers his life's true purpose and it sustains his unwavering belief in the power of faith.
19) The forgiven
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While assisting in the investigation of a teenage girl's murder, Archbishop Desmond Tutu travels to a maximum-security prison to question a notorious murderer who may have witnessed the crime.
20) Endgame
Publisher
Distributed by Monterey Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Working for P. W. Botha, Dr. Neil Barnard opens talks with imprisoned Nelson Mandela. But lesser known are the secret talks that take place in a rural English manor house. Both sides may win or lose all, including their own lives. Botha learns of the British talks and, with the inevitable demise of apartheid, he intends to control the endgame by using the tactics of divide and rule. Against all the odds, a precious arena of frail trust between the...
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