Africa commons. Southern African films & documentaries.

Format:

Database & Article Index

Website/Database

Contributor:

Coherent Digital (Firm)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures, African.

Documentary films--Africa.

Documentary films.

Africa--Archival resources.

Africa.

Africa--History--Archival resources.

Africa--Civilization--Archival resources.

Genre:

Databases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Continuously updated

Other Title:

Southern African films and documentaries

Southern African films & documentaries.

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Coherent Digital, [2023]-

Summary:

With content spanning the 1900s to present, Southern African Films and Documentaries offers streaming access to more than a century of African history, politics, and culture. Propaganda films from South Africa’s Information Service and newsreels from African Mirror show life under apartheid and major historical events as they unfolded (Rand rebellion, Africa during WWII, mining industry efforts, the Soweto uprising, the Rhodesian Bush War, and other topics). Documentaries and interviews (e.g., unedited interviews of Winnie Mandela and Oliver Tambo), sociopolitical documentary films such as Sharpeville Massacre; Side by Side: Women Against Aids in Zimbabwe; We are Marching to Pretoria, Voices of Robben Island, and Black Beulahs. Feature films, such as African Jim from 1949, South Africa’s first feature film, showing a picture of vibrant township culture before apartheid.

Notes:

Contents viewed on July 17, 2023; title from module home page.

OCLC:

1390649630

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.