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Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony

A celebration of music in the struggle, Amandla! looks at how changes in the lyrics, rhythms and melodies of liberation songs reflected the radicalisation of black resistance in response to ever harsher crackdowns by the Apartheid state. In the context of the defiance campaign era of the 1950s, jaunty ditties warned "watch out Verwoerd, the black man will get you"; the Sharpeville massacre prompted a series of dirges, and the 1976 riots saw the emergence of songs expressing youthful dynamism, anger and disaffection. Revealing interviews with SA music greats - Dolly Rathebe, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela and Sibongile Khumalo - interspersed with disturbing footage of key events make for a compelling and novel retelling of this significant chapter of our past.

Dir: Lee Hirsch South Africa/ 110mins