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Have you heard from Johannesburg? [6/7]: The Bottom Line [1965 – 1988]

Titre original : Have you heard from Johannesburg?: The Bottom Line [1965 – 1988]
Pays concerné : Afrique du Sud
Support : Vidéo Numérique
Durée : 86 minutes
Genre : politique
Type : documentaire
Site web : www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story5.html
Français
Les employers et consommateurs du monde entier pressent Polaroid, General Motors, Barclay’s Bank, et d’autres grandes multinationales de se retirer d’Afrique du Sud. Une crise financière survient quand un grand nombre de multinationales isolent le régime blanc.
La dramatique histoire de la manière dont la lutte anti-apartheid a grandit au sein d’une poignée d’exilés d’Afrique du Sud dans les années 60.
de Connie Field, Usa, 2009
Histoire Six : The Bottom Line [1965 – 1988], (86 mins)
Série documentaire HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG
Liste des sept (7) films qui composent la série :
Histoire Une : Road To Resistance [1948 – 1964], (58 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story1.html
Histoire Deux : Hell Of A Job [1960 – 1977], (58 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story2.html
Histoire Trois : The New Generation [1960 – 1977], (58 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story2.html
Histoire Quatre : Fair Play [1958 – 1981], (90 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story3.html
Histoire Cinq : From Selma To Soweto [1977 – 1986], (89 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story4.html
Histoire Six : The Bottom Line [1965 – 1988], (86 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story5.html
Histoire Sept : Free At Last [1979 – 1990], (75 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story6.html
Réalisatrice / Productrice : Connie Field
USA, 2009, documentaire.
Anglais, Vidéo, 1h36 min
Durée Totale de la série : 5h50
Chaque histoire peut être regardé de manière indépendante sans que cela gêne la compréhension
Mots clés :
Mouvement anti-apartheid movement apartheid South Africa social justice human rights racisme documentary Oliver Tambo Nelson Mandela history histoire droits de l’homme droits humains
La dramatique histoire de la manière dont la lutte anti-apartheid a grandit au sein d’une poignée d’exilés d’Afrique du Sud dans les années 60.
de Connie Field, Usa, 2009
Histoire Six : The Bottom Line [1965 – 1988], (86 mins)
Série documentaire HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG
Liste des sept (7) films qui composent la série :
Histoire Une : Road To Resistance [1948 – 1964], (58 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story1.html
Histoire Deux : Hell Of A Job [1960 – 1977], (58 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story2.html
Histoire Trois : The New Generation [1960 – 1977], (58 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story2.html
Histoire Quatre : Fair Play [1958 – 1981], (90 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story3.html
Histoire Cinq : From Selma To Soweto [1977 – 1986], (89 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story4.html
Histoire Six : The Bottom Line [1965 – 1988], (86 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story5.html
Histoire Sept : Free At Last [1979 – 1990], (75 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story6.html
Réalisatrice / Productrice : Connie Field
USA, 2009, documentaire.
Anglais, Vidéo, 1h36 min
Durée Totale de la série : 5h50
Chaque histoire peut être regardé de manière indépendante sans que cela gêne la compréhension
Mots clés :
Mouvement anti-apartheid movement apartheid South Africa social justice human rights racisme documentary Oliver Tambo Nelson Mandela history histoire droits de l’homme droits humains
English
Employees and consumers worldwide pressure Polaroid, General Motors, Barclay’s Bank, and other corporate giants to divest from South Africa. A financial crisis ensues when a mass exodus of corporations isolates the white regime.
« The forces in the world to isolate South Africa was making it less and less credit worthy. The country was becoming unbankable and I wanted out! »
– Willard Butcher, Chairman Chase Manhattan Bank 1981-1990
This is the story of the first-ever international grassroots campaign to successfully use economic pressure to help bring down a government. Recognizing the apartheid regime’s dependence on its financial connections to the West, citizens all over the world, from employees of Polaroid to a General Motors director, from student account-holders in Barclay’s Bank to consumers who boycott Shell gas, all refuse to let business with South Africa go on as usual. Boycotts and divestment campaigns bring the anti-apartheid movement into the lives and communities of people around the world, helping everyday people understand and challenge Western economic support for apartheid. Faced with attacks at home and growing chaos in South Africa, international companies pull out in a mass exodus, causing a financial crisis in the now-isolated South Africa and making it clear that the days of the apartheid regime are numbered.
The dramatic tale of how the anti-apartheid struggle grew from a handful of South African exiles in the ‘60s into a global movement.
Story Six:
The Bottom Line [1965 – 1988]
by Connie Field, Usa, 2009 (86 minutes)
Featuring (seven films) :
Story One: Road To Resistance [1948 – 1964], (58 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story1.html
Story Two: Hell Of A Job [1960 – 1977], (58 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story2.html
Story Three: The New Generation [1960 – 1977], (58 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story2.html
Story Four: Fair Play [1958 – 1981], (90 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story3.html
Story Five: From Selma To Soweto [1977 – 1986], (89 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story4.html
Story Six: The Bottom Line [1965 – 1988], (86 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story5.html
Story Seven: Free At Last [1979 – 1990], (75 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story6.html
Runtime: 510 mins.
Series Story Descriptions
Part 1
Road to Resistance (58 mins.)
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.
Hell of a Job (58 mins.)
The future of the movement is 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.
The New Generation (58 mins.)
Youth in South Africa and around theouth 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.
Part 2
Fair Play (95 mins.)
Athletes and activists around the world hit white South Africa where it hurts: on the playing field. The sports boycott pushes apartheid South Africa out of international sporting competitions, isolating it in an area of passionate importance.
From Selma to Soweto (90 mins)
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.
Part 3
The Bottom Line (83 mins)
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 effort to use economic pressure to help bring down a government.
Free At Last (75 mins)
An uprising in South Africa becomesthe final blow in the cumulativeworld effort to topple apartheid. Nelson Mandela becomes a household name as the campaign to free him ignites a=worldwide crusade.
HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG is a powerful seven-part documentary series by two-time Academy Award nominee Connie Field that shines light on the global citizens movements that took on South Africa’s apartheid regime. It reveals how everyday people helped challenge and end one of the greatest injustices the world has ever known.
HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG begins with the story of freedom fighters in South Africa who are systemically killed, jailed or exiled for resisting their political oppression. Embattled South Africans call on the global community to take action, laying the groundwork for a decades-long international campaign. People around the world take up the anti-apartheid cause, challenging their governments, powerful corporations and other institutions to face up to the immorality of their collaboration with apartheid. HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG follows three generations of the struggle inside South Africa and battles waged in sports arenas and cathedrals, in embassies and corporate boardrooms, at rock concerts and in gas stations around the globe. Pulling together the many threads of international anti-apartheid action for the first time in any medium, HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG is an inspiring example for citizens and movements around the world.
One of the greatest weapons in the struggle against apartheid was the international sports boycott. Featuring a youthful Dennis Brutus at his brilliant best, Sam Ramsamy, Peter Hain, sports personalities and administrators, this meticulously researched documentary, with rare footage and revealing back story, unpacks the process of how the boycott took shape and effect. Step by difficult step, a dedicated and growing group of activists orchestrated the isolation of South Africa from the sports arenas, culminating in South Africa’s exclusion first from the Olympics, and then, finally, where it hurt most, from international rugby.
Producer/Director: CONNIE FIELD
Series Editor: GREGORY SCHARPEN
Principal Cinematography: TOM HURWITZ
Principal Historical Consultants: DR. GAIL GERHART, DR. ROBERT EDGAR, DR. CLAYBORNE CARSON, E.S. REDDY
Principal Funders: THE FORD FOUNDATION, THE JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. MACARTHUR FOUNDATION, THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
For more information about the series, visit http://www.clarityfilms.org. To get involved in the global engagement campaign around the series, please visit http://activevoice.net/haveyouheard.html.
Tags :
anti-apartheid movement apartheid South Africa social justice human rights racism documentary Oliver Tambo Nelson Mandela history
« The forces in the world to isolate South Africa was making it less and less credit worthy. The country was becoming unbankable and I wanted out! »
– Willard Butcher, Chairman Chase Manhattan Bank 1981-1990
This is the story of the first-ever international grassroots campaign to successfully use economic pressure to help bring down a government. Recognizing the apartheid regime’s dependence on its financial connections to the West, citizens all over the world, from employees of Polaroid to a General Motors director, from student account-holders in Barclay’s Bank to consumers who boycott Shell gas, all refuse to let business with South Africa go on as usual. Boycotts and divestment campaigns bring the anti-apartheid movement into the lives and communities of people around the world, helping everyday people understand and challenge Western economic support for apartheid. Faced with attacks at home and growing chaos in South Africa, international companies pull out in a mass exodus, causing a financial crisis in the now-isolated South Africa and making it clear that the days of the apartheid regime are numbered.
The dramatic tale of how the anti-apartheid struggle grew from a handful of South African exiles in the ‘60s into a global movement.
Story Six:
The Bottom Line [1965 – 1988]
by Connie Field, Usa, 2009 (86 minutes)
Featuring (seven films) :
Story One: Road To Resistance [1948 – 1964], (58 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story1.html
Story Two: Hell Of A Job [1960 – 1977], (58 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story2.html
Story Three: The New Generation [1960 – 1977], (58 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story2.html
Story Four: Fair Play [1958 – 1981], (90 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story3.html
Story Five: From Selma To Soweto [1977 – 1986], (89 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story4.html
Story Six: The Bottom Line [1965 – 1988], (86 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story5.html
Story Seven: Free At Last [1979 – 1990], (75 mins)
www.clarityfilms.org/joburg/story6.html
Runtime: 510 mins.
Series Story Descriptions
Part 1
Road to Resistance (58 mins.)
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.
Hell of a Job (58 mins.)
The future of the movement is 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.
The New Generation (58 mins.)
Youth in South Africa and around theouth 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.
Part 2
Fair Play (95 mins.)
Athletes and activists around the world hit white South Africa where it hurts: on the playing field. The sports boycott pushes apartheid South Africa out of international sporting competitions, isolating it in an area of passionate importance.
From Selma to Soweto (90 mins)
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.
Part 3
The Bottom Line (83 mins)
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 effort to use economic pressure to help bring down a government.
Free At Last (75 mins)
An uprising in South Africa becomesthe final blow in the cumulativeworld effort to topple apartheid. Nelson Mandela becomes a household name as the campaign to free him ignites a=worldwide crusade.
HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG is a powerful seven-part documentary series by two-time Academy Award nominee Connie Field that shines light on the global citizens movements that took on South Africa’s apartheid regime. It reveals how everyday people helped challenge and end one of the greatest injustices the world has ever known.
HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG begins with the story of freedom fighters in South Africa who are systemically killed, jailed or exiled for resisting their political oppression. Embattled South Africans call on the global community to take action, laying the groundwork for a decades-long international campaign. People around the world take up the anti-apartheid cause, challenging their governments, powerful corporations and other institutions to face up to the immorality of their collaboration with apartheid. HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG follows three generations of the struggle inside South Africa and battles waged in sports arenas and cathedrals, in embassies and corporate boardrooms, at rock concerts and in gas stations around the globe. Pulling together the many threads of international anti-apartheid action for the first time in any medium, HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG is an inspiring example for citizens and movements around the world.
One of the greatest weapons in the struggle against apartheid was the international sports boycott. Featuring a youthful Dennis Brutus at his brilliant best, Sam Ramsamy, Peter Hain, sports personalities and administrators, this meticulously researched documentary, with rare footage and revealing back story, unpacks the process of how the boycott took shape and effect. Step by difficult step, a dedicated and growing group of activists orchestrated the isolation of South Africa from the sports arenas, culminating in South Africa’s exclusion first from the Olympics, and then, finally, where it hurt most, from international rugby.
Producer/Director: CONNIE FIELD
Series Editor: GREGORY SCHARPEN
Principal Cinematography: TOM HURWITZ
Principal Historical Consultants: DR. GAIL GERHART, DR. ROBERT EDGAR, DR. CLAYBORNE CARSON, E.S. REDDY
Principal Funders: THE FORD FOUNDATION, THE JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. MACARTHUR FOUNDATION, THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
For more information about the series, visit http://www.clarityfilms.org. To get involved in the global engagement campaign around the series, please visit http://activevoice.net/haveyouheard.html.
Tags :
anti-apartheid movement apartheid South Africa social justice human rights racism documentary Oliver Tambo Nelson Mandela history
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