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The World Against Apartheid: Have You Heard from Johannesburg?

20121 Season60m episodes

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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: US

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A five-part chronicle of the history of the global anti-apartheid movement that took on South Africa’s entrenched apartheid regime and its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War.

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Status: Ended
First aired: Jan 24, 2012
Network: PBS
Studio: Clarity Films

Time to finish

7 hrs

7 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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The World Against Apartheid: Have You Heard from Johannesburg?

20121 Season60m episodes

Documentary

Your rating

Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: US

About

A five-part chronicle of the history of the global anti-apartheid movement that took on South Africa’s entrenched apartheid regime and its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War.

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Jan 24, 2012 · 1h 5m
The Road to Resistance
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. The future of the movement is now 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.
E2 · Airs Jan 31, 2012 · 57m
Hell of a Job
Tambo is sent abroad to run the ANC after it is banned in South Africa in 1960. This episode traces Tambo's efforts to bring the injustice of apartheid to the world's attention. He insists that the apartheid regime can be brought to the negotiating table if the governments would sanction and isolate South Africa, which economically and culturally depends on its links to the western world.
E3 · Airs Feb 7, 2012 · 58m
The New Generation
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.
E4 · Airs Feb 14, 2012 · 1h 36m
Selma to Soweto (aka Fair Play)
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.
E5 · Airs Feb 21, 2012 · 1h 29m
Apartheid and the Club of the West
An exploration of the complex and fascinating drama of the anti-apartheid movement in one of South Africa's most important allies, the United States. The US is a key battleground, with African-Americans at the center of the struggle.
E6 · Airs Feb 28, 2012 · 1h 26m
The Bottom Line
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 efforts to use economic pressure to help bring down a government.
E7 · Airs Mar 6, 2012 · 1h 18m
Free at Last
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.

Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Jan 24, 2012
Network: PBS
Studio: Clarity Films

Time to finish

7 hrs

7 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

Episodes

0 of 0 watched

E1 · Airs Jan 24, 2012 · 1h 5m
The Road to Resistance
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. The future of the movement is now 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.
E2 · Airs Jan 31, 2012 · 57m
Hell of a Job
Tambo is sent abroad to run the ANC after it is banned in South Africa in 1960. This episode traces Tambo's efforts to bring the injustice of apartheid to the world's attention. He insists that the apartheid regime can be brought to the negotiating table if the governments would sanction and isolate South Africa, which economically and culturally depends on its links to the western world.
E3 · Airs Feb 7, 2012 · 58m
The New Generation
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.
E4 · Airs Feb 14, 2012 · 1h 36m
Selma to Soweto (aka Fair Play)
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.
E5 · Airs Feb 21, 2012 · 1h 29m
Apartheid and the Club of the West
An exploration of the complex and fascinating drama of the anti-apartheid movement in one of South Africa's most important allies, the United States. The US is a key battleground, with African-Americans at the center of the struggle.
E6 · Airs Feb 28, 2012 · 1h 26m
The Bottom Line
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 efforts to use economic pressure to help bring down a government.
E7 · Airs Mar 6, 2012 · 1h 18m
Free at Last
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.

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