In the fight against AIDS, Zimbabwean women stand side by side mobilising communities, educating people and empowering other women. This documentary is a positive message of self-help and determination.
Biography of the South African writer and politician. A South African author and anti-apartheid activist, Paton's works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope.
MADEMOISELLE (Rodolphe Burger, Sofiane Saidi, Mehdi Haddab) - Live @Banlieues Bleues Mademoiselle correspond très exactement à la définition d’un « Supergroupe » : les 3 personnalités qui le composent sont chacun soliste ou leader de différentes…
Zulu traditional healers and their work in plant conservation and primary health care, including AIDS.
Almost from the beginning of cinema, filmmakers have looked at the continent of Africa with a mixture of fear and fascination, prejudice and contempt. South Africa, with its fabulous mineral wealth, exotic locations, and white settlers, attracted scores of movie makers. Now, when the era of white rule…
Documentary on the Canadian AIDS activist, Jon Gates.
Theory and practice of steel band performance. Every year the islands of Trinidad and Tobago are caught up in the frenzy of Carnival; a tradition inherited from the brief passage of the French through these islands.
A biographical film about Nelson Mandela’s journey from anti-apartheid activist, to prisoner, then South African president.
History of the Catskill Mountains’ Jewish resort area – the Borscht Belt. For over 50 years, the Catskill Mountains of New York State were the summer retreat of millions of Jews, mostly of Eastern European origin, from New York City.
Peter Davis' documentary Winnie Mandela: Under Apartheid was made in 1985, when she was in exile in Brandfort, South Africa.
From the moment that white colonisers stepped onto the shore of South Africa, they were met with resistance by the Black peoples. This resistance continued unabated until apartheid was defeated; but the story of this resistance was suppressed and distorted because white people controlled the history…
A history of Afrikaner nationalism and the development of apartheid. In their quest for land in southern Africa, the Boer people fought off the African inhabitants of the land they were invading from a circle of covered wagons, known as a 'laager'.
