Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa
1) Hotel Rwanda
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a five-star-hotel manager who uses his wits and persuasion in striving to save more than 1,200 Tutsis and Hutus from being massacred by the Interahamwe militia during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society.
3) Tsotsi
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Zulu
Description
A young man running with a criminal gang on the streets of Johannesburg, Tsotsi - a nickname meaning thug - is immersed in a world of violence that seems to leave him unaffected, until he discovers an infant in the backseat of a car he has stolen.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down. So much so, that the usual teasing at the hands of Bellamy provokes Fogg into undertaking a wager--to travel around the world in eighty days. Fogg is accompanied...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An adventurous young falcon named Kai leaves his remote country home for Zambezia, the fabulous city of birds, against his father's wishes. When his father is captured by an evil lizard who plans to attack the city, Kai must learn the importance of teamwork to rescue his father and save his new friends.
6) Khumba
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
A half-striped zebra blamed for the drought in Great Karoo embarks on a quest to earn his stripes by finding the legendary waterhole and saving the animals back home.
8) Red dust
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A political thriller set in a small South African town during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings. Human rights lawyer Sarah Barcant must represent Alex Mpondo, a former political activist, who was held captive and sadistically tortured by a police officer under the apartheid regime in South Africa.
9) The breed
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A group of friends fly to a deserted island for the weekend. They are unaware that a flesh-eating pack of wild dogs, genetically engineered to hunt and kill, is waiting for them.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
After finding bones stripped of flesh around a strange rock dome, Alex discovers that he is being hunted by millions of creatures. As darkness descends, the ground is a living carpet capable of devouring flesh with every step. Hell has been unleashed ...
11) Khumba
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A half-stripped zebra blamed for the drought in Great Karoo embarks on a quest to earn his stripes by finding the legendary waterhole and saving the animals back home.
12) In my country
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
A Washington Post journalist and an Afrikaans poet strike up a friendship and become romantically involved as they try to come to terms with their feelings about what they've learned at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
13) Skin
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Despite being born to Afrikaner parents, Sandra faces prejudice from her community due to her dark skin and African features. Torn between her family and the man she loves, Sandra must overcome the racial intolerance of her society in this uplifting true story.
14) Vehicle 19
Publisher
Ketchup Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Recently paroled Michael Woods just wants to get his life in order. But when he discovers a gun, a cell phone, and an unconscious woman in the trunk of a rental car, he fears he's in for the ride of his life. Michael has some serious decisions to make: keep his head down and hope to escape with his life, or risk it all to do the right thing.