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Island

United States, 1981
film

From a description of what it is like for black prisoners in the South African gaol ‘The Island’, the unreasonableness of apartheid is shown. It w..

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The Prisoner

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South Africa: the white laager

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Afrikaner experience: politics of exclusion

United States, 1978
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Prison

Canada, 1975
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Mandela

United Kingdom, 1986
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Cell 16

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Nelson Mandela

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Mandela

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Amandla! A revolution in four-part harmony

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Twentieth century slavery

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Black and white in South Africa

Canada, 1957
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South Africa belongs to us

Germany, 1980
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13th

United States of America, 2016
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Cry freedom

United Kingdom, 1987
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The Union of South Africa: the land and its people

United States, 1956
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Jail

United States, 1979
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The Hill

United States, 1965
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During that time

Australia, 1998
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