The World Against Apartheid: Have You Heard from Johannesburg? — Season 1, Episode 1: The Road to Resistance
Documentary • 65 min • 1 season, 7 episodes
Episode synopsis
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.
About The World Against Apartheid: Have You Heard from Johannesburg?
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.