John Matshikiza
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Johannesburg, South Africa
Adult: No
Birthday: November 26, 1954
Age: 70 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 15, 2008
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Dust Devil
Overview: A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-11
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Shake Hands with the Devil
Overview: In 1993, Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire was sent by the United Nations to Rwanda as commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR). Its mission, to ensure the ceasefire, is underfunded, excessively bureaucratized and made up of military units which come from dozens of countries and which each have a very different program... These are Lt Gen Dallaire's efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-28
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Cry Freedom
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-06
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The Redemption: Kickboxer 5
Overview: Kickboxing champion Matt Reeves witnesses the murder of his friend Johnny. While investigating the crime, he learns that a Mr. Negaal in South Africa has founded a new kickboxing association and does not leave international champions much of a chance. Johnny had to pay with his life when he did not want to join. Neegal seems to kill everybody who is in his way especially David Sloan from the previous Kickboxer films. Matt is on his own now, but suddenly finds an unexpected ally.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-01
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Born Free: A New Adventure
Overview: Another thrilling adventure for Elsa the lioness as she works her magic on two teenagers struggling with changes in their life.
Genres: Drama Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-27
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Wah-Wah
Overview: Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, through his parents' traumatic separation, till he's 14.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-17
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Yankee Zulu
Overview: Two South African boys, one white, Rhino, and one black, Zulu, go their separate ways after an incident. Many years later, they meet up again as adults, when one, after living for years in the United States, is now a wanted criminal. The two end up being a part of a madcap chase involving a check for a large amount of lottery money, pursued by Gen. Diehard and Rhino's ex-wife Rowena, who was the cause of the rift between the two protagonists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-01
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The Air Up There
Overview: Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-07
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Dust
Overview: A South African spinster murders her father after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-11
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The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Overview: Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-15
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Woman of Desire
Overview: A yacht captain, Jack Lynch, is accused of murdering his boss and raping the victim's wife, Christina Ford. Nothing is how it first appears. Jack seeks the help of veteran attorney Walter J. Hill to help prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-26
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Beyond Borders
Overview: Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British industrialist. She encounters Nick Callahan, a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves her deeply. As a result, Sarah embarks upon a journey of discovery that leads to danger, heartbreak and romance in the far corners of the world.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-23
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Desert of Lies
Overview: The fortunes of two expeditions a century and a half apart become mysteriously linked in the same desolate stretch of Kalahari Desert. In 1848 the Broon family are sent by the London Missionary Society to look for and convert a legendary race of strangely deformed savages. In 1983, a team of three people go off in search of what really happened.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-13
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Victims of Apartheid
Overview: George, a black South African, finds it hard to settle down in London after his experiences in South Africa.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-24
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Child of Hope
Overview: Thirty-seven men from the disputed territory of South West Africa are on trial for their lives in Pretoria, 1,000 miles from their home. They are to be tried under South Africa's Terrorism Act despite the UN ruling that South Africa must abandon its 'illegal administration' of their country.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-24
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Escape From Kampala
Overview: The true story of a daring prison break. Wycliffe Kato, Director of Civil Aviation in Idi Amin's Uganda was at the airport to catch a flight to Canada for a conference when he was arrested by Amin's secret police, members of the notorious State Research Bureau, and thrown into the Nakasero prison. This should have meant certain death, but, along with his cell mates, army officers who had come under suspicion of organizing a coup, he escaped and made it on foot to Nairobi. This TV movie is based on Wycliffe Kato's own account in his book "Escape From Idi Amin's Slaughterhouse".
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-08
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Mapungubwe: Secrets of a Sacred Hill
Overview: Governed from an impenetrable hilltop, Mapungubwe became the business centre for all of Africa’s trade which, between the years 950 AD to 1290 AD, had become well integrated into the world economy and thrived on trade with the East Indian Trade Route attracting traders from as far afield as Persia, Arabia, India and China. Join John Matshikiza is his investigation of these mysterious archeological ruins.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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By George
Overview: An anthropologist observed by one of his erstwhile victims - a sophisticated comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-23
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Hijack Stories
Overview: A young Soweto actor joins a gang to study up and be more convincing in a gangster role he wants.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-07-03
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Mandela
Overview: Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revolution in that country.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-20
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