I thought that people might be interested in this. You might think that I
am prejudiced because I am in it, but it really is very good indeed, and it
is a good resource for any organisations interested in finding out about
the world struggle against apartheid.
Regards
David Kenvyn,
Tel: 0141 777 3143
Internal: 4429
Fax: 0141 777 3140
E-Mail: As above
Visit www.lovescottishlibraries.org
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Date: 09/02/2012 18:55
Subject: First Comprehensive History on DVD of the Global Anti-Apartheid
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"This brilliant series is a landmark work of global
significance."
Professor Clayborne Carson, Stanford University
7 DISC BOX SET NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD | PURCHASE
2010 Award for Best Series, International Documentary
Association
"Best Documentary of 2010," Time Out New York and The
Village Voice
HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG tells the story
of the most successful international social
justice movement of the 20th century. The series
delivers a monumental history that will teach and
motivate students across a wide range of
disciplines; like political sciences, African and
African-American studies, sociology, and
religious studies.
HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG is a thrilling
inside look at the anti-apartheid movement, its
dangers, discouragements and ultimate jubilation
as revealed through a unique archive of material
culled from hundreds of sources worldwide. This
remarkable saga is told by those who lived it -
from giants of the South African freedom struggle
like Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Walter Sisulu to
grassroots activists in over a dozen countries.
HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG is the first
time this global epic has been told and provides
an inspiring and comprehensive look into a
movement whose influence lives on today in
everything from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall
Street.
The DVD set includes feature and short versions
for classroom use. The films are chapterized for
access to specific scenes to provide a teacher
the ability to tailor the material to their
lesson plan. DVD extras include 35 short bonus
scenes that are also an ideal length for
allowing discussion time. How To Order
View the Have You Heard From Johannesburg
series trailer
Almost fifty years ago, South Africans began to
realize that their freedom struggle had to be
built in four arenas of action: mass action,
underground organization, armed struggle, and
international mobilization. These documentaries
take viewers inside that last arena, the movement
to mobilize worldwide citizen action to isolate
the apartheid regime. Inspired by the courage and
suffering of South Africa's people as they fought
back against the violence and oppression of
racism, foreign solidarity groups, in cooperation
with exiled South Africans, took up the
anti-apartheid cause. Working against heavy odds,
in a climate of apathy or even support for the
governments of Verwoerd, Vorster and P.W. Botha,
campaigners challenged their governments and
powerful corporations in the West to face up to
the immorality of their collaboration with
apartheid.
This was not just a political battle; it was
economic, cultural, moral, and spiritual. The
struggle came to many surprising venues: it was
waged in sports arenas and cathedrals, in
embassies and corporate boardrooms, at fruit
stands and beaches, at rock concerts and gas
stations. Thousands died, but in the end,
nonviolent pressures played a major part in the
collapse of apartheid and thus in the stunning
victory of democracy in South Africa.
The combined stories have a scope that is epic in
both space and time, spanning most of the globe
over half a century. Beginning with the very
first session of the United Nations, and ending
in 1990 - when, after 27 years in prison, Nelson
Mandela, the best known leader of the African
National Congress (ANC) toured the world, a free
man.
WHAT THE SCHOLARS SAY
"Connie Field's HAVE YOU HEARD FROM
JOHANNESBURG... [makes] palpable as no other
interpreter has what it meant to be a part of the
most important transnational social movement of
the late twentieth century. A kaleidoscopic
documentary [that] gains its tremendous power
from an accumulation of ... moving and revelatory
moments."
- Professor Mark Philip Bradley, University of
Chicago
"Field's remarkable documentary...is what
transnational history looks like. It includes
hundreds of interviews with an truly impressive
range of people of many nationalities and from
all levels of political life. The story
unfolds...in the cadences of newscasts and film
footage of the decades in which it happened.
Given our remarkable lack of institutional
resources for telling the history of apartheid at
the transnational level, many of these events
likely will not be familiar to our students, and
it is to Field's credit that the story is told in
a way that will be riveting to both students and
experts. Emotionally powerful, and historically
rich, this is an outstanding piece of documentary
filmmaking."
- Melani McAlister, Associate Professor of
American Studies, International Affairs, and
Media and Public Affairs, George Washington
University
"This magisterial series of seven DVD films is
the most comprehensive coverage to date of
apartheid and its international dimensions, and
in particular the global anti-apartheid movement.
[It] is the best available visual guide to the
determined and innovative anti-apartheid movement
that developed globally from the early 1960s and
made a major contribution to the ending of one of
the most repressive systems of racial
discrimination known to humanity. In no other
film is there such depth of explanation and
richness of footage as the viewer is taken from
one country to another, from South Africa to
Britain to the U.S. to see and appreciate how
people in all walks of life, from South African
exiles, political and labor activists, clergy,
sportspeople, media stars, poets, teachers and
other everyday people became motivated to do
something concrete to lend a hand to stop
apartheid. The overall result is a well-rounded
historical and sociological account that will
greatly enrich the understanding of the phenomena
of apartheid, colonialism, and racism by viewers,
whether students, teachers, or professors. The
lessons of the anti-apartheid movement are
increasingly evident today and this excellent and
path-breaking film offers salutary lessons with
echoes for today's Arab Spring. Highly
recommended for schools, universities and the
general public. This series offers a rich
educational experience that will be equally
valuable for researchers and classroom teachers
across a wide range of subjects from politics,
history, sociology, anthropology, and Global,
African, and African American Studies.
- Peter Limb, Africana Bibliographer and Adjunct
Associate Professor of African History, Michigan
State University. Author 'Nelson Mandela: A
Biography' (2008) and the 'ANC's Early
Years' (2010).
"The signal achievement of HAVE YOU HEARD FROM
JOHANNESBURG is the illumination of how to build
and sustain, against long odds, a transnational
social movement that was instrumental in helping
end one of the most repressive regimes in the
modern world. It is difficult to imagine a more
important issue in modern world history."
- Professor Thomas Borstelmann, Yale University
WHAT THE CRITICS SAY
"EXEMPLARY... A TRIUMPH of maximalist filmmaking.
And you won't look at your watch once. Field's
nonfiction epic is a monumental chronicle not
just of one nation and its hideous regime, but of
the second half of the 20th century. Field's
scores of interviewees - black, white, fiery,
subdued, colonized, colonizing - powerfully
complement the abundance of archival footage, and
vice versa...deftly toggles between the macro and
the micro."
- Melissa Anderson, The Village Voice
WELL WORTH THE COMMITMENT. This is a clear-eyed,
fast-moving portrait...Every part could stand on
its own, yet the doc's real impact is
cumulative."
- Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York
"CRITICS' PICK! One of the most notable
achievements (and there are many) of this
massive, ENGROSSING, AND SURPRISINGLY EXCITING
work about South African apartheid is that it
reminds us how recently this violent, immoral,
criminal regime was in power - and of how so many
world governments turned a blind eye to its
brutalities."
- Bilge Ebiri, New York magazine
"Like THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, the 1966 film about
the violent struggle against French colonial rule
in Algeria, HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG
functions almost as a manual on how to topple an
unjust regime."
- Larry Rohter, The New York Times
"Mandatory viewing! Epic! Exhilarating! More
compelling and instructive than any fictionalized
movies on the subject. Charged by the
impassioned, clear-eyed approach of its
producer-director Connie Field and energized by a
cast of characters...The figure who stands out as
the blood, guts, and mind of the movement...is
Oliver Tambo. Shown in rare interview footage, he
emerges as a dynamic leader of impressive
intellect and courage. (The film) demonstrates
Field's talent for weaving an extraordinarily
complex tapestry of historical events and
international personages into a dramatic
structure, complete with climax and catharsis.
The number of impressive individuals that Field
has assembled to flesh out this story is
astounding. There is not a dull or inarticulate
figure among these talking heads."
- Tony Pipolo, Artforum
"Connie Field has produced a STAGGERING,
PANORAMIC FILM-HISTORY of the forces that
ultimately toppled the apartheid regime in South
Africa."
- Anderson Tepper, Vanity Fair
THE EPISODES
1. ROAD TO RESISTANCE
(65 MINUTES)
As the U.N. adopts the Declaration of Human
Rights, South Africa heads in the opposite
direction and implements apartheid. A mass
movement is born, then crushed, and Nelson
Mandela is jailed for life.
2. HELL OF A JOB
(58 MINUTES)
The future of the movement is on the shoulders of
Oliver Tambo, who escapes into exile and begins a
30-year journey to engage the world in the
struggle to bring democracy to South Africa.
3. THE NEW GENERATION
(58 MINUTES)
Youth in South Africa and around the world are
next to join the growing movement against
apartheid, and the brutal suppression of a youth
uprising in Soweto galvanizes public support for
sanctions against South Africa.
4. FAIR PLAY
(DUAL VERSIONS AVAILABLE. 96 MINUTES and 52
MINUTES)
Athletes and activists around the world hit white
South Africa where it hurts: on the playing
field. The sports boycott pushes apartheid South
Africa out of international sporting
competitions, isolating it in an area of
passionate importance.
5. FROM SELMA TO SOWETO
(DUAL VERSIONS AVAILABLE. 89 MINUTES and 56
MINUTES)
African-Americans alter U.S. foreign policy for
the first time in history, successfully
pressuring the U.S. to impose sanctions and
politically isolate Pretoria.
6. THE BOTTOM LINE
(DUAL VERSIONS AVAILABLE. 86 MINUTES and 52
MINUTES)
International grassroots campaigns against
Polaroid, Shell, Barclay's, General Motors and
others doing business in South Africa
economically isolate the apartheid regime and
become the first successful effort to use
economic pressure to help bring down a
government.
7. FREE AT LAST
(DUAL VERSIONS AVAILABLE. 78 MINUTES and 52
MINUTES)
An uprising in South Africa becomes the final
blow in the cumulative world effort to topple
apartheid. Nelson Mandela becomes a household
name as the campaign to free him ignites a
worldwide crusade.
Learn more about the episodes and view trailers
here
HOW TO ORDER
Pricing: Colleges or Universities - $695 DVD,
$995 DVD and Digital Rights; High Schools, Public
Libraries, or Community Organizations - $345;
Individuals - $149.
Purchases can be made through our website via
credit card. We accept Visa, Mastercard, American
Express and Discover.
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Clarity Films, 2600 Tenth Street, Suite 412,
Berkeley, CA 94710
For further information contact 510-841-3469.
Product Info:
Region code: NTSC Region 0. Number of discs: 7.
Language: English. Closed Captions: Yes
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