8 Films & TV Shows Set In South Africa During The 1950s
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Winnie
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sWhile her husband served a life sentence, paradoxically kept safe and morally uncontaminated, Winnie Mandela rode the raw violence of apartheid, fighting on the front line and underground. This is the untold story of the mysterious forces that combined to take her down, labeling him a saint, her, a sinner.
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Master Harold... and the Boys
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950sThis movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally's friend and teacher. Hally is required to laugh at his father's racist jokes, by contrast, Sam exposes Hally to uplifting experiences. One day Hally was terribly humiliated by his father and Sam shows Hally how to be proud of something he can achieve.
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Skin
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950sBased on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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The World Unseen
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950sA drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.
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Drum
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950sThe truth shall set you free — A hot-shot journalist is swept up in a movement to challenge Apartheid in 1950s South Africa.
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Sophiatown
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950sLittle Bird's first South African production, SOPHIATOWN has won the award for Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival 2003. SOPHIATOWN celebrates the great popular jazz music of the 1950's in South Africa; a rich tradition deserving international attention. Director Pascale Lamche, traces the music, uncovers the artists who created it and the unique culture in which it thrived, concentrated in Sophiatown, Johannesburg's own Harlem, which fuelled by liberation politics until its destruction by the Apartheid regime. The film features Nelson Mandela and such household names from the jazz world as Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jonas Gwangwa and Caiphus Semenya.
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Sammy Going South
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950sIncredible Adventure in a Land That Knows a Thousand Dangers! — After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South Africa where his nearest relative, Aunt Jane, lives. On the way he meets a variety of different people who help or hinder his journey - including an ageing diamond smuggler.
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Come Back, Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950sCome Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
