En 1975 en Afrique du Sud, le journaliste blanc Donald Woods se lie d'amitié avec Stephen Biko le leader d'un mouvement extrémiste: «Black Consciousness» qu'il rencontre au cours d'un reportage. De plus en plus proches, Woods est témoin d'actes de violence de la part de la police contre la communauté noire et s'implique de plus en plus dans la lutte anti-apartheid... jusqu'à l'arrestation de Biko et sa mort dans des conditions que les autorités tentent de dissimuler....
A man and a woman fight for the freedom of their country Marking with his gun Yay with her typewriter. Thrown together by a cause greater than either of them they share the suffering of the flesh and the spirit among the country's guerrilla fighters. They emerge, out of the crucible of war, heroes-and lovers..
Balogun's most political film is a confrontation with the African wars of liberation. Based on Carcase for Hounds, Meja Mwangi's novel about the Mau-Mau uprising, it is set in an unnamed country and thus offers the vision of a pan-African struggle for freedom and against colonial oppression. The central figures in the straightforwardly and powerfully told story are the guerrilla leader Haraka and his adversary, the English colonial official Kingsley. In the end, the film becomes a homage to the freedom fighters from all over Africa: the final images show Patrice Lumumba, Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela and Amílcar Cabral, among others..
Tibet’s Cry for Freedom explores both past and present in Tibet’s long suffering non-violent freedom struggle. Learn the truth from the Dalai Lama about Tibet’s real history and ponder the future of a nation whose time is fast running out. Understand why China’s grip on Tibet is so tight, hear true stories of human rights abuses and listen to why many believe the 2008 Olympics should never have been held in Beijing. Tibet’s story from the time of the Chinese occupation through to the uprisings in Tibet that shocked the world in March 2008 is told. Learn about the human rights abuses, political persecution and environmental destruction of this land known as “The Roof of the World.”.
Young revolutionary Kartar Singh Sarabha fights for Indian Independence in the early 1900s..
