The Recce

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radi...

Runtime

1h 41m

Director

Phillip Noyce

Cast

Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Mbuli

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.

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Bille August

Cast

Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when...

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Kaneto Shindo

Cast

Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satō

In response to political pressure from Senator Lillian DeHaven, the U.S. Navy begins a program that would allow for the eventual integration of women into its combat services. The program begins with a single trial candidate, Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil, who is chosen specifically for her femininity. O'Neil enters the grueling Navy SEAL t...

Runtime

2h 5m

Director

Ridley Scott

Cast

Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Morris Chestnut

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.

Runtime

2h 37m

Director

Richard Attenborough

Cast

Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton