Color
Release: 1996
Copyright: 94/5
Each episode of ORDINARY PEOPLE chronicles an event in South Africa through the eyes of three or four "ordinary" people. Some events are large in scope, others less momentous, but through these individuals of diverse backgrounds and dissimilar points of view, each program provides insight into the collective South African conscience and the problems confronting a fragile and evolving new society.
Titles in the ORDINARY PEOPLE series:
For information on the complete series, please inquire, or visit the Ordinary People website at http://www.mg.co.za/mg/mgtv.
"No staging, no setups: just the heartening reality of Ordinary People doing their best... Extraordinary, as clean as a scalpel's cut, and every bit as incisive."—Basckin, Sunday Tribune (Durban)
"An astonishing chronicle."—Roy Christie, The Star (Johannesburg)
"This is what television is all about."—John Scott, Cape Times (Cape Town)
"Recommended for academic libraries seeking to expand their collections on South African history or culture, or black studies."—Video Rating Guide for Libraries
A full day - from 4.00am until 11.00pm - in the life of President Nelson Mandela.
Harriet Gavshon | 1995 | 53 minutes | Color
A look at gay life in South Africa.
Nicolaas Hofmeyr | 1995 | 26 minutes | Color
Examines the troubling issue of land rights in the new South Africa.
Clifford Bestall | 1994 | 26 minutes | Color
The premiere episode of the acclaimed Ordinary People series visits two rallies commemorating the 1961 Sharpeville massacre - one staged by the Inkatha Freedom Party, the other by the African National Congress.
Clifford Bestall | 1994 | 26 minutes | Color
