Miriam Makeba Movies

The struggle to eradicate apartheid in South Africa has been chronicled over time, but no one has addressed the vital role music plays in this...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Walter Cronkite

The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in...

Genre: Music

Cast: Leleti Khumalo

Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Miriam Makeba

Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nina Simone

There was a time when the biggest names in pop music believed they could change the world for the better. Faced with the intolerance and excesses of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Harry Belafonte

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Muhammad Ali

A rural teacher discovers the harsh realities of his South Africa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Liensol

Soul Power is a 2008 documentary film about the Zaire 74 music festival in Kinshasa which accompanied the Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight boxing...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Brown

Have You Seen Drum Recently? is a 1989 film which uses photographs from the Drum archives to tell the story of the magazine and documents its...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Miriam Makeba

Algerian director Hamid Benamra turns his focus to Mustapha Boutadjine, a charming, mercurial collage artist in Paris whose very work methods embody...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mustapha Boutadjine

Miriam Makeba was one of the first African musicians who won international stardom and whose music was always anchored in her traditional South...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miriam Makeba

How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jürgen Zimmerer

Singer Paul Simon and several African musicians perform a concert to benefit victims of apartheid in South Africa.

Genre: Music

Cast: Paul Simon

Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebration of the 70th birthday of imprisoned ANC...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sting

In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patrice Lumumba