Summary: What happens when an Afrikaans guy and a Zulu girl fall in love and have to navigate their way through the complicated process of lobola? A contemporary romantic comedy about love and tradition in a rapidly evolving society. Funny yet hard-hitting, the film tackles the thorny subject of cross-cultural relationships with humor and honesty.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FANSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MandellaMuller, Peter Paul
Summary: A story of the South African lawyer Bram Fischer who defended Nelson Mandela and other members of his group during the Rivonia Trial.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ACTSummary: Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like so many others in the developing world. Although there is evidence that the extraterrestrials represent an advanced civilization, their lives on Earth...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DISToure, Nakhane
Summary: When Xolani, a quiet, sensitive, closeted factory worker returns home to be a guide in his tribe's coming-of-age circumcision ritual in the mountains, one of the initiates discovers his secret relationship with another guide, putting both of them at risk.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOUSummary: Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DRYSummary: In 1979 apartheid-era South Africa, two men imprisoned in Pretoria Prison plot to escape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ESCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ESCSummary: When London transplant Mia moves with her family to a lion farm in South Africa, she forms a bond with the white lion cub Charlie, one that is tested when the two run away across-country, hoping to reach a lion sanctuary and life-long safety for Charlie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY MIAHouten, Carice Van
Summary: In 1960s South Africa, Ingrid Jonker expresses herself through her poetry to the dismay of her father, a parliament censorship minister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BLAWashington, Denzel
Summary: While housing ex-CIA agent turned criminal, Tobin Frost, a safe house in Cape Town, South Africa is attacked by mercenaries forcing Frost and the CIA agent in charge to run for their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SaSummary: A farmer moves his family to South Africa and suffers a series of seemingly insurmountable losses. Through unlikely friendships and much needed divine intervention, he discovers his life's true purpose and it sustains his unwavering belief in the power of faith.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FAICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FSummary: Recently widowed Dr. Nate Daniels and his two teenage daughters travel to a South African game reserve managed by Martin Battles, an old family friend and wildlife biologist. However, what begins as a journey of healing soon turns into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of bloodthirsty poachers, begins stalking them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEASummary: Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNISummary: Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DESSummary: Pocahontas, the young daughter of Chief Powhatan, wonders what adventures await just around the riverbend. She is joined by her playful pals, raccoon Meeko and hummingbird Flit. A chance meeting with Captain Smith leads to a friendship that will change history, as the Native Americans and English settlers learn to live together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012