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Nelson Mandela Story, The: Resistance (2013)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £12.99

Documentary. A chronological account of Nelson Mandela’s life, featuring interviews with Mandela, Winnie Mandela, family members as well as archive footage.

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David Schalkwyk on the Robben Island Shakespeare (2014 Audio)

aka: Cowards die Many Times Before Their Deaths, The Valiant Never Taste of Death but Once

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. While Nelson Mandela was incarcerated on South Africa’s Robben Island, one of the other political prisoners managed to retain a copy of Shakespeare’s complete...

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Mandela: Son of Africa, Father of a Nation (2006)

aka: Mandela

Director

Angus Gibson; Jo Menell

Producer

Jonathan Demme; Jo Menell; Edward Saxon

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 118 minutes), £17.99

A film biography of Nelson Mandela, incorporating archive film and interviews wtih colleagues, friends and family. Coverage of Mandela’s trial for treason is particularly strong.

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Mandela (1987 Video)

Director

Philip Saville

Producer

Dickie Bamber

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 150 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

A dramatised biography of Nelson Mandela and his wife Winnie, filmed in Zimbabwe. Traces Mandela’s shift in philosophy from passive resistance to armed struggle.

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Nelson Mandela and the Struggle to End Apartheid (1996 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min., 1996 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

Traces the historical events relating to apartheid in South Africa and the African National Congress (ANC) from 1950 through Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990. Includes interviews with and...

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Mandela (1985)

aka: Mandela: The Struggle is My Life

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 42 minutes), £23.00

A political biography of Nelson Mandela and his unique role in the liberation struggle in South Africa, as an individual and as an executive member of the African National Congress. Even in 1985, after 23...

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Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

Director

Tony Palmer

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 140 minutes), £13.99

Profile of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose work explores the excesses of the apartheid regime in South Africa. The film includes interviews with Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Nadine Gordimer and...

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Freedom (1997 Video)

Producer

Sasha Stewart

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate the struggles for freedom world-wide in the 20th century. Looks at apartheid in South Africa and the triumph of Nelson Mandela, East Germany and the...

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Heroes or Villains (1999 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 80 min., 1999 sale: £17.99 (inclusive) each

Twenty-minute programmes using contemporary news and archive film from ITN, witnesses to the protagonists’ lives and the voices of commentators and historians to build up potraits of eight influential...

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Island, The: An Historic Piece? (1991 Video)

Producer

Tony Coe

Subject

Drama; English language and literature

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Athol Fugard and John Kani, who together with Winston Ntshona devised ‘The Island’, trace the background of this fiercely funny and critical play. Set in the South African prison of Robben Island, where...

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