Apartheid films

1982 film directed by Richard Attenborough

1989 film directed by Richard Donner

2013 film directed by Lee Daniels

1987 British drama film directed by Richard Attenborough

2013 film by Justin Chadwick

1989 film by Euzhan Palcy

1992 film by John G. Avildsen

2020 film directed by Francis Annan

2013 film directed by Jérôme Salle

1988 film by Chris Menges

1992 film directed by Darrell Roodt

2006 film by Phillip Noyce

2007 film by Shamim Sarif

2010 film directed by Steven Silver

1975 film by Ralph Nelson

2009 film directed by Pete Travis

2008 film by Anthony Fabian

2003 film by Bronwen Hughes

2004 film by John Boorman

Moffie is a 2019 biographical war romantic drama film co-written and directed by Oliver Hermanus. Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by André Carl van der Merwe, the film depicts mandatory conscription into the notorious South African Defence Force (SADF) during apartheid through the eyes of a young closeted character Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brümmer) as he attempts to hide his attraction to another gay recruit (Ryan de Villiers) in a hostile environment. The title derives from a homophobic slur in South Africa used to police masculinity.

1996 film by Gray Hofmeyr

2011 film by Paula van der Oest

2016 film by Oliver Schmitz

1951 film

2004 British film

Bopha! is a 1993 American drama film directed by Morgan Freeman and starring Danny Glover. It is Freeman's directorial debut. It was adapted from a 1986 play of the same name.

2007 film by Charles Burnett

1960 film by Lionel Rogosin

2004 film by Zola Maseko

1995 film by Darrell Roodt

1979 film by Otto Preminger

1986 film

Tengers is a 2007 South African animated film written, directed and produced by Michael J. Rix. It is the first full-length animation produced in South Africa and uses the claymation technique.

2000 film directed by Kevin Hooks

Mapantsula is a 1988 South African crime film directed by Oliver Schmitz and written by Schmitz and Thomas Mogotlane. It tells the story of Johannes 'Panic' Themba Mzolo (Mogotlane), a small-time thief, set against the backdrop of Apartheid. The film's use of flashbacks between Panic's time at the hands of his apartheid jailor 'Stander' (Marcel Van Heerden) and happenings in the Johannesburg township of Soweto display the injustices black South Africans suffered during apartheid and their struggle for suffrage. The film makes extensive use of political rallies, police brutality, and racial dif

1969 film by Jans Rautenbach

1990 film by Tom Clegg

2022 film directed by Mandla Dube

1984 film by Regardt van den Bergh

1993 film

2017 film directed by Roland Joffé

2001 film by Cristobal Krusen

1990 film by David Lister

2008 film by John Kani

1968 film by Jans Rautenbach

1995 film

1980 film directed by Ross Devenish

2004 film by Ian Gabriel