Southern African Films and Documentaries

Southern African Films and Documentaries

Villon Films


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Villon Films · 1988 English

Gilbert Marcus is a leading South African advocate. He served at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, and on the Human Rights Committee, amongst …


Villon Films · 1988 English

Joe Latakgomo is a veteran journalist with more than fifty years’ experience. He has worked on newspapers like the banned The World and Weekend World, Post and Sunday Post as …


Villon Films · 1988 English

David Webster was an academic and anti-apartheid activist. He worked as an anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was a senior lecturer at the time of his …


Villon Films · 1988 English

John Mattison was a political journalist, foreign correspondent, and NPR's former South Africa correspondent. He worked for Nelson Mandela, helping the leader improve his media savvy after he was released …


Villon Films · 1987 English

Percy Mtwa and other actors discuss the making of their play Bopha! which is about family strife and loyalties during the 1970-1980 troubles. It tells the story of a son, …


Villon Films · 1986 English

Biography. Reissued in updated form as NELSON MANDELA: PRISONER TO PRESIDENT. Film about Nelson Mandela’s journey from anti-apartheid activist to prisoner then South Africa’s president.


Villon Films · 1985 English

South African government propaganda film of the apartheid era. A South African government response to criticism of its policies, via promotion of its tourism and industry.


Villon Films · 1985 English

Propaganda film by South African government’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Information that focuses on the controversial 1980 British Lions tour to South Africa and the country’s efforts made towards …


Villon Films · 1985 English

Unedited Interview from Davis's documentary, Winnie Mandela: Under Apartheid, was made in 1986, when Winnie was in exile in Brandfort, South Africa, and necessitated Davis's illegal entry into South Africa. …


Villon Films · 1985 English

Mary Benson was a South Africa civil rights campaigner and author. She assisted Nelson Mandela's escape from South Africa in 1962.