Summary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COL

Summary: What happens when an Afrikaans guy and a Zulu girl fall in love and have to navigate their way through the complicated process of lobola? A contemporary romantic comedy about love and tradition in a rapidly evolving society. Funny yet hard-hitting, the film tackles the thorny subject of cross-cultural relationships with humor and honesty.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FAN

Summary: "Now, in the third season of Meerkat Manor, the Whiskers stake new territory and are ready to start anew. Led by the dominant female/matriarch Flower, the Whiskers face new rivalry in the form of the Zappa tribe--another meerkat mob best characterized as the neighbors from hell. No stranger to a good challenge, the Whiskers are ready to stand their ground"--container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Communications 2008

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MEE

Summary: Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like so many others in the developing world. Although there is evidence that the extraterrestrials represent an advanced civilization, their lives on Earth...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD D

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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DIS

Summary: When London transplant Mia moves with her family to a lion farm in South Africa, she forms a bond with the white lion cub Charlie, one that is tested when the two run away across-country, hoping to reach a lion sanctuary and life-long safety for Charlie.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY MIA

Houten, Carice Van

Summary: In 1960s South Africa, Ingrid Jonker expresses herself through her poetry to the dismay of her father, a parliament censorship minister.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2012

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BLA

Summary: Recently widowed Dr. Nate Daniels and his two teenage daughters travel to a South African game reserve managed by Martin Battles, an old family friend and wildlife biologist. However, what begins as a journey of healing soon turns into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of bloodthirsty poachers, begins stalking them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BEA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEA

Summary: Athol Fugard's searing coming of age masterpiece set in apartheid era South Africa. On a rainy afternoon in his mother's tea house, lonely 17 year-old Hally and Sam and Willie, two middle-aged black servants, share idyllic memories of their lifelong friendship. But when Hally learns that his invalid alcoholic father is coming home from the hospital, he unleashes his resentment and rage on Sam...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD M

Summary: A boy, a girl, a bushman, and a dog wander across the desert in order to escape elephant poachers who want them dead.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAR