Villon Films · 2010 English
A group of independent documentary filmmakers set out across South Africa in search of what is understood about Apartheid and its legacy. This journey captures personal experiences from the country …
Villon Films · 2006 English
Beulah' is a South African gay slang term that means "Beautiful / attractive man or boy". The documentary explores the lives of three friends living within the largely unexplored Soweto …
Villon Films · 2005 English
Father Paul Singleton fought against the controversial forced Sophiatown removals in the 1950's. Singleton was a keen photographer and captured many images of the Sophiatown removals. His photographs were used …
Villon Films · 1997 English
Women of Africa: wives, mothers, labourers, nurturers. Now, in the wake of the AIDS pandemic women also serve as care-givers to family and community members afflicted with HIV or AIDS. …
Villon Films · 1994 English
This two-part series examines the role of cinema in both supporting and attacking apartheid. It questions Hollywood’s commitment to racial stereo types and reluctance to depict black heroes. Almost from …
Villon Films · 1993 English
Rod Amateau and Harold Nebenzal were an American film and television screenwriters, directors, and producers. They were the scriptwriters of The Wilby Conspiracy, filmed in Kenya and set during apartheid …
Villon Films · 1993 English
This two-part series examines the role of cinema in both supporting and attacking apartheid. It questions Hollywood’s commitment to racial stereo types and reluctance to depict black heroes. Almost from …
Villon Films · 1992 English
John Matshikiza was a South African actor, theatre director, poet and journalist. This interview is part of a series of unedited interviews with South African (and some American) writers, journalists …
Villon Films · 1992 English
John Kennedy Marshall was an American anthropologist and acclaimed documentary filmmaker best known for his work in Namibia recording the lives of the Juǀʼhoansi (also called the !Kung Bushmen). This …
Villon Films · 1990 English
Robert Van Der Merwe was a film director in studio. This interview is part of a series of unedited interviews with South African (and some American) writers, journalists and activists …
Villon Films · 1990 English
The ANC activist, released from prison, talks about his life, and meets old comrades.
Villon Films · 1990 English
During the darkest days of apartheid, Ken Gampu, who died in 2003, became the first black South African film star, and an inspiration to a generation of black South African …
Villon Films · 1990 English
Gibson Kente was a South African playwright, composer, director and producer based in Soweto. He was known as the Father of Black Theatre in South Africa, and was one of …
Villon Films · 1990 English
André Brink was a South African novelist, essayist, and poet. He was a key figure in the significant Afrikaans literary movement known as Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"). These writers sought …
Villon Films · 1990 English
Bill Faure was a South African film director and writer, best known for writing and directing Shaka Zulu, a 1986 television mini series. The show still has a massive following …
Villon Films · 1990 English
Cinema owner and projectionist, Johannesburg. This interview is part of a series of unedited interviews with South African (and some American) writers, journalists and activists made in the late ‘80s, …
Villon Films · 1990 English
Carolyn Hamilton is a South African anthropologist and historian. She was a professor of anthropology at the University of Witwatersrand. She was a member of the board of the South …
Villon Films · 1990 English
Henry Cele was a South African actor noted for his portrayal of the great Zulu Warrior King Shaka kaSenzangakhona in the South African television miniseries Shaka Zulu as well as …
Villon Films · 1988 English
Botswana: Where Manna Rains From Heaven looks at Africa, food and poverty.
Villon Films · 1988 English
Joseph Nong “Joe” Thloloe was born in 1942 in Orlando East, Soweto. A highly experienced journalist, Thloloe is a widely known and respected newsman who has contributed to the promotion …
Villon Films · 1988 English
Andre Coetzee was part of the United Democratic Front which existed from 1983 to 1991. The UDF comprised more than 400 public organizations including trade unions, students' unions, women's and …
Villon Films · 1988 English
Vrye Weekblad was a groundbreaking progressive, anti-apartheid Afrikaans national weekly newspaper that was launched in November 1988 and forced to close in February 1994. The paper was driven into bankruptcy …
Villon Films · 1988 English
Gabu Tugwana was editor of New Nation in the early nineties. He worked for the Rand Daily Mail in 1976 as a reporter covering the unrest. He was arrested and …
Villon Films · 1988 English
Don Mattera was a South African poet and author. He was a founding member of the Black Consciousness movement and joined the ANC Youth League. He helped form the Union …
Villon Films · 1988 English
Harvey Tyson spent more than 40 years in journalism on nine newspapers including serving as editor of The Star. He was famous for saying “‘It’s the easiest thing in the …
Villon Films · 1988 English
This film is about the decisive battle against South African invaders in Angola, with Cuban military assistance. The battle of Cuito Cuanavale and the Cuban intervention in Angola is one …
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.
Villon Films · 1985 English
Zenani Mandela is a South African diplomat and traditional aristocrat. She is the sister-in-law of the King of eSwatini, Mswati III, and the daughter of Nelson Mandela and his second …
Villon Films · 1985 English
Zindzi Mandela gives Nelson’s defiant speech rejecting the apartheid government’s offer of a conditional freedom, Soweto sports stadium, 10 February 1985
Villon Films · 1985 English
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. It deals with Winnie's life …
Villon Films · 1985 English
A propaganda film that proposes an argument to show that apartheid South Africa was in the process of evolutionary change.
Villon Films · 1985 English
1985, Lord Bethell meeting Nelson Mandela At Pollsmoor Prison, South Africa
Villon Films · 1985 English
American Christian missionary Rick Schmidt presents two films, both suggesting that the African National Congress (ANC) is a “marxist terrorist” group and a “duplicitous, communist-inspired corrupter of Black youth” in …
Villon Films · 1985 English
A critical look at the philosophy, leaders, and activities of the African National Congress making the case that the ANC encourages violence, is a “peddler of the Soviet slant” and …
Villon Films · 1984 English
Oliver Tambo was a South African anti-apartheid politician and activist who served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1967-1991. In this interview, Tambo discusses his relationship with …
Villon Films · 1981 English
Filmed in New York in 1981, Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona discuss a coming production of the play Sizwe Bansi is Dead. Drawing on the personal experience of …
Villon Films · 1980 English
From the moment that white colonizers stepped onto the shore of Southern Africa, there was black resistance. This resistance continued unabated until apartheid was defeated. But the story of this …
Villon Films · 1977 English
A United Nations concerned with women's rights and economic progress, held an international forum in New York on the role of women and population and development.
Villon Films · 1977 English
History of Afrikaner nationalism. 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 …
Villon Films · 1976 English
Propaganda film that gives a biased view of the events leading up to and after the uprising in Soweto, June 16th, 1976.
Villon Films · 1975 English
Propaganda film produced by the South African government’s Department of Foreign Affairs made to attract overseas business development during the country’s apartheid era. Contains b-roll of a city’s financial district …