Miners shot down / Uhuru Productions presents, in coproduction with IKON Netherlands, DRTV Denmark, in association with National Film & Video Foundation, SVT Sweden, NRK Norway, RTS Switzerland, YLE Finland & NHK Japan ; a film by Rehad Desai ; director, Rehad Desai ; producers & script, Anita Khanna, Rehad Desai.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Desai, Rehad, film director.

Khanna, Anita, film producer, screenwriter.

Miller, Philip, 1964- film producer, screenwriter.

IKON Televisie, production company.

DR TV (Television station : Copenhagen, Denmark), production company.

National Film and Video Foundation (South Africa), production company.

Sveriges television, production company.

NRK (Television network : Norway), production company.

Radio-télévision suisse, production company.

Yleisradio Oy, production company.

Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai, production company.

Uhuru Productions, production company.

Icarus Films, distributor.

Language:

English

Xhosa

Zulu

Subjects (All):

Strikes and lockouts--Miners--South Africa--Rustenburg.

Strikes and lockouts.

Miners--South Africa--Rustenburg--Interviews.

Miners.

Police shootings--South Africa--Rustenburg.

Police shootings.

Massacres--South Africa--Rustenburg.

Massacres.

Strikes and lockouts--Miners.

Marikana (Rustenburg, South Africa).

South Africa--Rustenburg.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Interviews.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (86 min.) : digital, sound, color with black and white sequences

Place of Publication:

[Brooklyn New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2018]

Language Note:

English, Xhosa, Zulu with subtitles in English.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa's biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. Miners Shot Down shows the courageous fight waged by a group of low-paid workers against the combined forces of mining company Lonmin, the ANC government and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers. What emerges is collusion at the top, spiralling violence and the country's first post-apartheid massacre.

Credits:

Photography, Nicolaas Hofmeyr, Shadley Lombard, Jonathan Kovel ; sound, President Kapa ; editors, Menno Boerema, Ruben van der Hammen, Kerryn Assaizky, Megan Gill, Steen Johannessen ; original music, Philip Miller.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: Uhuru Productions, ©2014.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 11, 2018).

Publisher Number:

if-msd Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.