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  1. Manuscripts of Timbuktu, The (2012)

    Director
    Zola Maseko
    Producer
    David Max Brown
    Subject
    Anthropology; Arabic studies; Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 52 minutes), $195.00

    A film on how the legendary Timbuktu became one of the world’s leading scholarly and trading centres during the 12 - 15th centuries. It dispels the myth that Africa had no science or written culture before...

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  2. U-Gugu No Andile (2009 Film)

    aka: Gugu & Andile Gugu and Andile

    Director
    Minky Schlesinger
    Producer
    Bridget Pickering; Neil Brandt
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    No distributor or archive copy found (4/2008).

    Feature film directed by Minky Schlesinger derived from the 2008 television mini-series broadcast by SABC1 which sets the story of Romeo and Juliet during the faction fighting that brought the East Rand...

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  3. Othello (2007 Film)

    Director
    Eubulus Timothy
    Producer
    Eubulus Timothy; Jacintha Timothy
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    No archive copy or distributor known (8/2011).

    Feature film version of Othello with Royston Stoffels in the title role.

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  4. Bushmen’s Secret (2006)

    Director
    Rehad Desai
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 65 minutes), $225.00

    When South African filmmaker Rehad Desai travels to the Kalahari to investigate global interest in ancient Bushmen knowledge, he meets Jan van der Westhuizen, a fascinating Khomani San traditional healer....

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  5. Othello: A South African Tale (2005 Film)

    Director
    Eubulus Timothy
    Producer
    Jacintha Timothy
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film adaptation set in modern-day South Africa. In this version both Othello and Iago are black and Emilia is white.

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  6. Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2004)

    Subject
    Music; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 182 minutes), £24.99

    Lee Hirsch’s film AMANDIA! took nine years to make and tells the story of black South African freedom music, revealing the central role it played in the long battle against apartheid and how song was used...

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  7. Siphiwo Mtimkulu: The Final Chapter (1998 Video)

    Director
    Mark J Kaplan
    Producer
    Mark J Kaplan
    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale - see TRIUMPH OVER TERROR, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., See: TRIUMPH OVER TERROR

    Follows the struggle to bring before South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission the case of Siphiwo Mtimkulu, a student leader shot and burned in 1982 by the Security Police.

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  8. Anatomy of the Equine Hoof and Innervation of the Forelimb (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Veterinary science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 45 min., 1997 sale: £38.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In four parts: 1) THE HOOF explains the anatomy of the horse’s foot and biomechanics of the actions of the structures within it; 2) NERVES AND NERVE BLOCKS looks at the problems of a lame horse and...

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  9. Leader, His Driver, And the Driver’s Wife, The (1991 Video)

    Director
    Nicholas Broomfield
    Producer
    Nicholas Broomfield; Rita Oord
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 72 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Shows what happens when the apparently awkward Nick Broomfield tries to make a film about the white right-wing neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement and its leader Eugene Terreblanche. Broomfield lulls his...

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  10. Othello (1988) (1988 Television, Video)

    Director
    Janet Suzman
    Producer
    David Pupkewitz
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 188 min.

    This television production marked the directorial debut of Janet Suzman and was staged in her native South Africa by the Market Theatre of Johannesburg. Casting black actor John Kani in the title role, the...

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