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When her village is threatened with forced resettlement due to reservoir construction, an 80-year-old widow finds a new will to live and ignites the spirit of resilience within her community.

The two American Ninjas, Joe Armstrong and Sean Davidson, team up to do battle against a terrorist and his band of Ninjas.

Set in the lush but lawless land on the border between Lesotho and KwaZulu-Natal, Outlaws is the story of two families at war with each other: the Zulu, cattle-farming Biyela clan and the Basotho, cattle-raiding Tseoles.

A young man reluctantly embarks on a journey to his ancestral land of Lesotho to bury his estranged father, and finds himself drawn to the mystical beauty and hardships of the people and the land he had forgotten.

When the chips are down and everything seems lost, it's good to have a best friend.

Cape Town. On his 25th birthday, Anselm starts a journey across Africa on a bicycle with two friends. After they arrive in the scorching Kalahari Desert, the trio suddenly splits. His friends fly home while Anselm decides to continue the ride up north - alone. Cautious at his vulnerability to his surroundings at first, he gains confidence and learns to adapt to the various cultures and their way of life. Step by step his incredible path unfolds and leads him through 15 countries of the African continent and to extraordinary encounters. His bicycle becomes his gateway to local life: it invites communication and enables him to found and support projects that promote rural youth. His conviction to travel by his own strength, camp in unimaginable places and rely on intuition, leads him to exceptional adventures, but also to acutely experience fundamental issues. Besides night-time encounters with lions or hippos and repeated malaria and typhus infections, he struggles with water provision, discrimination and corrupted officials. He still faces the ultimate challenge - riding 3.000 kilometers through the Sahara against the relentless North Wind. After a year, 15.000 kilometers and 15 travelled countries, having fallen in love with this multi-facetted world, his journey faces an unpleasant end - ironically by people that would protect him against the "dangerous" continent.

An eight-part exploration of the diverse peoples that make up the African continent.

In a land ravaged by disease, economic hardship, and political turmoil, teenage mothers seek to rebuild their lives. A small team of women answer their call.

For over 120 years hundreds of thousands of black men from the countries of Southern Africa have left their families to dig for gold and produce the wealth of South Africa. Today these mining communities face severe poverty and the world's greatest epidemic of silicosis and tuberculosis caused by exposure to silica dust in gold mines. The true cost of South Africa's wealth is revealed by the juxta-positioning of present day gold miner stories with an archival voice created from state and mining records and repurposed industrial documentaries and propaganda films. The archival voice further reveals the untold story of how industrialised South Africa was built on a foundation of modern slavery based on a vast system of recruitment that utilized propaganda films since the early 1900's. Dying for Gold is also a story of mad love that holds men, women and children through experiences of unspeakable pain and death.

In a society riddled by patriarchy, Mosonngoa embarks on an incisive pursuit to save her father's farm. When all her attempts fail, she enters a stick-fighting competition - against all odds.

An itinerant preacher proclaims to people that their god is in the very coffin he is dragging along.

This documentary shows life in Lesotho, life where there is 1 doctor to every 10,000 people. Patients have to walk days of traveling just to get to the medical facility, only wait even more days before they can be treated.

Sekalli le Meokgo is a magic realism story about Kgotso, a recluse stickfighter who lives a solitary life high up in the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho. Legend whispers of Kgotso's mother who died in childbirth bequeathing him with a curse. He was raised by an old traditional healer, who on her deathbed gives Kgotso his most treasured possession, a concertina. At the tender age of 8 Kgotso vanished into the mountains. Kgotso returns to the villages only when hired by distressed farmers to protect their sheep from thieves who plague the valleys. On day, whilst tending the sheep and playing to himself on his concertina he sees a beautiful and mysterious woman staring at him dreamily from the water. He is captivated. She disappears. The next day she returns, drawn by his beautiful music. As he plays for her, Mokgodutswane, a sinister and evil horseman, ambushes them. Kgotso is badly wounded. The horseman rides off with the woman. Kgotso is found by the villagers and nursed back to life. He discovers the woman in the village, but she exists only as a motionless body known as Meokgo. What he met in the mountains was her spirit, which was stolen and enslaved by the evil horseman Mokgodutswane. Kgotso, an outsider who was once cold and unloving, finds himself enchanted by Meokgo. Kgotso returns to the water to lure Meokgo's spirit and face the evil that has enslaved her. This is a story about unrequited love, and sacrifice infused with both the cruelty and the beauty of African magic.

Prince Harry travels to Lesotho in Southern Africa to look at the progress being made by his charity, Sentebale, to combat HIV/AIDS.

During the Anglo-Boer War, a young Boer soldier has a fortuitous encounter with a Senior British officer, whom he wounds and finds dying in the veld.

'Ubuntu: The Street Child Story' is a heartfelt film documenting the plight of street children in urban Africa. Raw and authentic in its message, all the stakeholders, including the children themselves, share their stories. Matt Nelson, the film's young director, spent 3 months in southern Africa living with street children in 2007. Working with a small NGO based in Zambia, Eagles Wings, Matt documented their lives in order to share their stories and raise awareness of their plight. To get an overall picture of the situation they traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, interviewing various Government ministers and heads of major NGOs, including UNICEF and World Vision.

Rob Warner's Wild Rides, six countries, four continents, one unique adventure.

Imagine an Africa with entrepreneurial spirit, striving to take care of itself and find African solutions to African problems. That is what you will see in this groundbreaking one-hour documentary by award-winning producer Carol Pineau, and voted BBC World Documentary of the Year in 2006. There is no denying that Africa has wars, famines, natural and man-made disasters, but it also has high rises, stock markets, and Internet cafés. This film challenges the stereotypes and proves Africa cannot be so easily defined. Africa Open for Business gives a tour of the continent, profiling ten companies throughout Africa. These are the real stories on the ground - the successes, struggles, challenges, and solutions. Together these women are building Africa one business at a time. Voted BBC World Documentary of the Year 2006.

With its uniquely African identity, flavor, and feel, the series takes viewers behind the headlines into the heart of conflict. Whether it is a village kgotla (council of elders) mediating a land dispute in the former Zaire, or the Truth and Reconiciliation Commision in South Africa, each episode demonstrates that good storytelling does not have to glorify conflict for its own sake-that an agreement can be as dramatic as any soap opera. At the same time, the series challenges the view that Africa is incapable of solving its own problems.

Rough or Smooth, is an adventurous and sophisticated documentary series, with a strong travel, food and lifestyle focus. In the 13-part South African Premiere season well known local TV personalities and old friends, Paul du Toit and Terence Bridgett guide audiences on a journey to some of the most remarkable and eclectic places and show the very different sides to the same destinations. They are both passionate about food, travel and the people and places of Southern Africa, but they live out this shared passion in very different ways. Paul is rough; happiest with barbecue smoke in his eyes and a freshly dived crayfish steaming in kelp. Terence however, as befits the doyenne of the social pages, is smooth, preferring his crustacean served with the requisite Sauvignon Blanc. Southern Africa with its remarkable biodiversity and wide range of cultures served as the perfect location for the show's first season, in which the Rough or Smooth guides search for interesting places, indulge in indigenous delicacies, interact with locals and partake in the most extreme or sophisticated of activities. Paul has climbed Kilimanjaro, and surfed, dived and canoed all over the world, but for Terence, boutique hotels, back massages, haute couture and fine dining are more his cup of Earl Grey. Paul drags a reluctant Terence through the rough experience while Terence nudges an under-dressed Paul though the finer options available in the same places. They spear mullet in the Kosi Bay fish traps, ski in the Maluti Mountains, drink wine on one of South Africa's oldest estates, eat cow's head 'Soweto style' and reveal their personal stories as they sing with the Drakensberg Boys Choir and complete the Dusi Canoe Marathon. While Rough or Smooth is first and foremost a documentary, the likeable personalities of the hosts make it playful, quirky and more accessible, creating informative and entertaining television.

Half of the documentary is of a HIV positive person (using a static self-operated camera) and the other a 1960's Jean-Luc Godard inspired fiction in Paris. As the story unfolds, the two subjects, which could not have been more in contrast, find a common thread.