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1) District 9
Publisher
Tri-Star Pictures
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
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 are marked by squalor, dysfunction, and xenophobic hostility....
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jock the Hero Dog is a family animated adventure that tells the heart-warming, coming-of-age story of a young man and his best friend, a lovable and fearless dog named, Jock. Narrated by Donald Sutherland, the story takes place in the beautiful outback of South Africa. Through a series of life-lessons and bonding experiences, Jock, the runt of the litter, grows to become a beloved and trusted companion, a bold adventurer, and a living embodiment...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom.
4) Invictus
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1994, having been released from his long imprisonment, Nelson Mandela is elected as the first president of post-apartheid South Africa. Racial tension runs high, even in the president's offices, and especially among the members of his half black, half Afrikaner security team. As hosts of the 1995 Rugby World Cup, South Africa's low ranked national team, the Springboks, have a berth in the tournament. Mandela begins making public appearances supporting...
6) Primeval
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
An American news crew is determined to capture the legendary 25-foot man-eating crocodile and stop his demonic rampage. They travel deep within the darkest reaches of Africa to hunt their prey. But Gustave, as the native call him, is also on the hunt - always on the move, always elusive, always hungry for human flesh.
7) Catch a fire
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
8) Duma
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The powerful tale of an unbreakable bond of friendship between a cheetah named Duma and a courageous young boy named Xan. Xan faces the true test of love when he must cross the wilds of Southern Africa to return his best friend to his rightful home.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Moffie
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Afrikaans
Description
Set in the early 1980s, follows the story of a South African teenager who must complete two years of compulsory military service in the South African Defence Force to defend the apartheid regime while trying to hide his homosexuality.
11) The Power of One
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A young English boy, orphaned in a foreign land and terrorized for his political belief, turns to boxing. As he grows up fighting with his fists and leading with his heart, he takes on the system and the social injustices around him--finding that one person really can make a difference.
12) The forgiven
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Archbishop Desmond Tutu is appointed to head a nationwide investigation, he's summoned to a maximum-security prison by a notorious murderer seeking clemency. Inside the brutal prison's walls, Tutu is drawn into a dangerous, life-changing battle with the cunning criminal.
13) Beast
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Trouble with the curve (111 min.): An ailing baseball scout in his twilight years takes his daughter along for one last recruiting trip.
Gran Torino (116 min.): Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession, a 1972 Gran Torino.
J. Edgar (137 min.): J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly 50 years, looks back on his professional and personal...
15) Duma
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The powerful tale of an unbreakable bond of friendship between a cheetah named Duma and a courageous young boy named Xan. Xan faces the true test of love when he must cross the wilds of Southern Africa to return his best friend to his rightful home.
16) ZULU
Publisher
TGG Direct, LLC
Pub. Date
�2008
Language
English
Description
A handful of British engineers entrench themselves in an isolated outpost called Rorke's Drift and prepare to face a series of vicious assaults by more than 4,000 Zulu warriors.
17) Beast
Author
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a widowed father decides to bring his daughters to a South African game reserve, they find themselves being stalked by an aggressive lion.
Publisher
Ammo Content
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Perfectionist Nandi seems to have the New South African Dream life within her grasp, a promotion to partner in a major firm, an upcoming marriage, the perfect house. But it all goes up in flames a few months before the wedding. With her friends Zaza and Princess, Nandi will have to find out what truly makes her happy and then fight to get it.
20) Love on safari
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After Kira inherits a wildlife reserve in South Africa, she travels there to meet the no-nonsense head ranger, Tom. When she learns the reserve is in financial jeopardy and she may have to sell it to her uncle's competitor, Tom urges her to save it by taking her on a safari in hopes that she will fall in love with the land, the animals, and hopefully him.