Nelson Mandela
Also Known As: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Biography: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mvezo, Cape Province, South Africa
Birthday: July 18, 1918
Deathday: December 05, 2013
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Gender: Male
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The Kennedy Who Changed The World
Overview: Bill Clinton, Nicole Scherzinger and members of the Kennedy family reveal how JFK's sister Eunice used sport to change the lives of people with intellectual disabilities.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-12
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Hansie
Overview: "How do you start over once you have betrayed a nation's trust?" The news of Hansie Cronjé's involvement with Indian bookmakers and his resulting public confession rocked the international sporting community. An unprecedented rise to glory was followed by the most horrific fall. A tarnished hero fueled the nation's fury.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Overview: The struggle to eradicate apartheid in South Africa has been chronicled over time, but no one has addressed the vital role music plays in this challenge. This documentary by Lee Hirsch recounts a fascinating and little-known part of South Africa's political history through archival footage, interviews and, of course, several mesmerizing musical performances.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-21
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Her Majesty's Prime Ministers: John Major
Overview: As a school dropout, the teenage John Major could simply never have dreamt that he would one day become a powerful political leader and get elected as Britain's Prime Minister. Major became Her Majesty's ninth Prime Minister.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-07
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The Bang Bang Club
Overview: In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-22
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São Paulo Abraça Mandela
Overview: Documentary about Nelson and Winnie Mandela's visit to the city of São Paulo, recording their encounter with the black community and social movements active in the city. The film shows the official reception and the importance of their presence in the process of recognizing the role of Afro-Brazilians in the formation of the country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-07-10
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Nelson Mandela: Resistance
Overview: History never forgets its heroes, its legends and its victims. During the 20th century there is only one name that stood out and was shouted around the globe, his struggle for fairness and equality spread across the planet and left no one indifferent. Nelson Mandela is a symbol for peace and a synonym for liberty. Explore the life and legacy of a man who alone changed history. With interviews with close relatives and historical archives, this documentary will send you back in time to understand Nelson Mandela and to discover what changed in South Africa.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-10
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Mandela
Overview: A documentary that chronicles the life of South African leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela is probably best known for his 27 years of imprisonment, and for bringing an end to apartheid. But this film also sheds light on the little-known early period of Mandela's life.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-11
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Malcolm X
Overview: A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-18
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In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
Overview: A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-18
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Chasing Mandela's Rainbow
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
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Sophiatown
Overview: Little Bird's first South African production, SOPHIATOWN has won the award for Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival 2003. SOPHIATOWN celebrates the great popular jazz music of the 1950's in South Africa; a rich tradition deserving international attention. Director Pascale Lamche, traces the music, uncovers the artists who created it and the unique culture in which it thrived, concentrated in Sophiatown, Johannesburg's own Harlem, which fuelled by liberation politics until its destruction by the Apartheid regime. The film features Nelson Mandela and such household names from the jazz world as Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jonas Gwangwa and Caiphus Semenya.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-16
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Mandelas Kinder
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-21
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Naomi Conquers Africa
Overview: Naomi and her supermodel friends travel to South Africa to hold a fashion show for Nelson Mandela’s Children’s Fund charity.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-18
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Miller Meets Mandela
Overview: For the first time since his release from 27 years of imprisonment Nelson Mandela opens up about his life and the turbulent times he's faced in this momentous, in-depth and revealing interview with Arthur Miller. From the intimate setting at his home in Soweto, South Africa, Mandela discusses the popularity and rise to power of the ANC movement and the pivotal role it played in the overthrow of the Apartheid regime. Plus he shares his thoughts on the future of South Africa, exploring both his hopes and fears in relation to the political, social and economic prospects of the country, putting particular emphasis on his 'Freedom Charter' - his personal vision for South Africa.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-18
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Voices from the Island
Overview: Nelson Mandela and his fellow ex-prisoners recall their incarceration on South Africa's Robben Island. For three decades, the island housed not only political prisoners but convicts, lepers and the mentally ill. Yet amidst the hopelessness, Nelson Mandela and his comrades devised strategies and subterfuges with which they transformed life on the island, while the vision of a new South Africa began to take shape.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-23
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Unity
Overview: Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one another, the animals, and nature. UNITY is a film about why we can't seem to get along, even after thousands and thousands of years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-12
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Plot for Peace
Overview: This is the untold story behind History, a well-kept secret behind the world-wide icon: Nelson Mandela's release was a Plot for Peace. For the first time, heads of state, generals, diplomats, master spies and anti-apartheid fighters reveal how Africa's front line states helped end apartheid. Their improbable key to Mandela's prison cell was a mysterious French businessman, dubbed "Monsieur Jacques" in classified correspondence. His trade secret was trust
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-20
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Winnie
Overview: While her husband served a life sentence, paradoxically kept safe and morally uncontaminated, Winnie Mandela rode the raw violence of apartheid, fighting on the front line and underground. This is the untold story of the mysterious forces that combined to take her down, labeling him a saint, her, a sinner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-07
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Franz Klammer - The Ski "Kaiser" Will Be 70
Overview: ORF chief director Michael Kögler met the legend again 30 years after his multi-award-winning documentary “Die Franz Klammer Story”. Never-before-broadcast material from the ORF archives provides deep insights into the career and life of the most successful downhill skier in alpine skiing history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-12-03
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Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
Overview: Explores the deep bond between Nelson and Winnie and their marriage in the struggle against apartheid. An intimate portrait of their connection from the early years through to the dismantling of apartheid and Mandela's historic presidency.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
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Troublemaker: The Story Behind the Mandela Tapes
Overview: Newly discovered audio interviews with Nelson Mandela himself delivers an honest, accurate and definitive depiction of the man who remains a global symbol of justice, hope and universal human dignity.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
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Death of Apartheid
Overview: The secret history of the negotiations that led to Mandela's release from prison, the ANC becoming the government of South Africa, and the end of apartheid.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-03
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Nelson Mandela, libre à tout prix
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-07-30
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Whitney
Overview: Examines the life and career of singer Whitney Houston. Features never-before-seen archival footage, exclusive recordings, rare performances and interviews with the people who knew her best.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-05
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Mama Africa
Overview: Miriam Makeba was one of the first African musicians who won international stardom and whose music was always anchored in her traditional South African roots. Miriam Makeba was forced into exile in 1959. She sang for John F. Kennedy, performed with Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone, was married to Hugh Masekela and also Stokely Carmichael. Her life was tumultuous. She always stood for truth and justice. She fought for the oppressed most importantly for black Africans, as a campaigner against apartheid. She died November 2008 after a concert in Italy. Mika Kaurismäki's documentary, traces fifty years of her music and her performing life. Through rare archive footage of her performances and through interviews with her contemporaries we discover the remarkable journey of Miriam Makeba.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-12
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White House Revealed
Overview: In this eye-opening documentary about the inner workings of the White House, the most famous residence in America opens its doors for a behind-the-scenes tour and a meet-and-greet with the staff who keep it running in tip-top shape. Highlights include bird's-eye musings from White House workers who've seen it all and an interview with former President George H.W. Bush, who shares his memories about living in Washington, D.C.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-16
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Africa Rising
Overview: How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a nicer portrait of this amazing continent, historically known for tragic subjects, such as slavery, famine, war and political chaos.
Genres: Documentary History Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-06-03
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The State Against Mandela and the Others
Overview: South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country house near Johannesburg. The detainees, along with Nelson Mandela, imprisoned since 1962, are charged with serious crimes for their radical activism against the apartheid regime…
Genres: Documentary History Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-17
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The Corporation
Overview: Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-10
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The Edge of Democracy
Overview: A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-01-24
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Fire in the Blood
Overview: An intricate tale of "medicine, monopoly and malice", Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of the global south in the years after 1996 - causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths - and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back. Shot on four continents and including contributions from global figures such as Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu and Joseph Stiglitz, Fire in the Blood is the never-before-told true story of the remarkable coalition which came together to stop 'the crime of the century' and save millions of lives in the process.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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Shadow World
Overview: A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the 20th century, have pulled the strings of the arms trade, hidden in the shadows, feeding the shameful corruption of politicians and government officials and promoting a state of permanent war throughout the world, while they cynically asked for a lasting and universal peace.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-14
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The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story
Overview: A documentary chronicling Queen and Lambert's incredible journey since they first shared the stage together on "American Idol" in 2009.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-29
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Stop The Tour
Overview: Stop The Tour discovers the extraordinary story of how sport helped bring an end to Apartheid which paved the way towards the multi racial 2019 Springbok champions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-28
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The Wikipedia Promise
Overview: In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began with a promise: to democratize the spreading of knowledge, monopolized by the elites for centuries. But is Wikipedia really a utopia come true?
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-01-03
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Nelson Mandela, au nom de la liberté
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-02-11
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