6 Films & TV Shows Set In South Africa During The 1960s

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  Winnie

  🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s

  While 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.

  Released in 2017 • 98 minutes
• Mandela's Gun

  🇿🇦 South Africa The 1960s

  MANDELAS GUN is a political thriller, based on Mandelas African Odyssey.

  Released in 2016 •
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  Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

  🇿🇦 South Africa The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1940s

  It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. — A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.

  Released in 2013 • 141 minutes
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  Goodbye Bafana

  🇿🇦 South Africa The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s

  The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.

  Released in 2007 • 115 minutes
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  Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation

  🇦🇴 Angola 🇳🇦 Namibia 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1970s The 1960s

  Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the life of Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South-West Africa People's Organisation and the first president of the Republic of Namibia.

  Released in 2007 • 161 minutes
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  A World Apart

  🇿🇦 South Africa The 1960s

  South Africa, 1963. A mother's love. A family's courage. — A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?

  Released in 1988 • 113 minutes