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Issued on DVD in 2011, this unauthorized release sees U2 perform the final shows of their groundbreaking PopMart Tour in Johannesburg, South Africa on SABC 3 (March 21, 1998). SETLIST: 01. Pop Muzik (Pop Muzic) | 02. Mofo | 03. I Will Follow | 04. Gone | 05. Even Better Then Real Thing | 06. Last Night On Earth | 07. Until The End Of The World | 08. New Year's Day | 09. Pride | 10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking | 11. Stand By Me | 12. All I Want Is You | 13. Staring At The Sun | 14. Suspicious Minds | 15. Maimi | 16. Bullet The Blue Sky | 17. Please | 18. Where The Streets Have No Name | 19. Lemon (Mix) | 20. Discotheque (We Are Family) | 21. If You Wear That Velvet Dress | 22. With Or Without You | 23. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me | 24. Mysterious Ways | Bonus Encore Not Included on DVD [Original Broadcast Only]: One | "40"

U2 perform the final show of their PopMart Tour in Johannesburg, South Africa via SABC 3 (March 21, 1998). SETLIST: Pop Muzik | Mofo | I Will Follow | Gone | Even Better Then Real Thing | Last Night On Earth | Until The End Of The World | New Year's Day | Pride (In The Name Of Love) | I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For | Stand By Me | All I Want Is You | Staring At The Sun | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Bullet The Blue Sky | Please | Where The Streets Have No Name | Lemon (Mix) | Discotheque (We Are Family) | If You Wear That Velvet Dress | With Or Without You | Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me | Mysterious Ways | One | "40" [Bonus encore not included on unofficial DVD release; Original SABC Broadcast Only] (Orig. SA TV Runtime: 130 Mins.; DVD Runtime: 85 Mins.)

Her televised HBO special from South Africa 1994.

Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.

Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.

South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country house near Johannesburg. The detainees, along with Nelson Mandela, imprisoned since 1962, are charged with serious crimes for their radical activism against the apartheid regime.

Poena is Koning follows the sexual awakening of Poena Pieterse and his high school buddy Vaatjie, who have decided that they have to lose their virginity by the time they finish school. But they've picked the worst moment to embark on their sexual escapade – it's matric exam time and their quest results in major distractions from their studies. The consequences are dire.

Random people are terrorized by a malevolent man who brings their worst fears to life.

An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.

This Traveltalk series short discusses how Johannesburg began as a farming community, but with the discovery of gold in the area, the city embraced mining as its primary industry. Native workers came to the area to train to be miners, and even after their work in the mines ended, many decided to remain in Johannesburg. The natives' music and dance are highlights.

A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?

The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.

A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.

Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

A documentary that tries to explain the reason for the passion of the Mexican football fandom.

Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source of inspiration in the liberation struggle against Apartheid. It was reputedly the main source that informed democratic South Africa’s liberal constitution and a constant reference point for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and rival political parties that it spawned since 1994, all claiming the Freedom Charter’s legacy. Freedom Isn’t Free assesses the history and role of the charter, especially in relation to key political and socio-economic aspects of developments in South Africa up to the present period. It includes rare archival footage with interviews of a cross-section of outspoken influential South Africans.

A drifter and his pet puma stand up against a motorcycle gang in a small American town.

In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.

A white cop and a black reporter join forces to investigate apparent vigilante killings in the South African underworld.

Since the days of Apartheid, Main Reef Road has linked Johannesburg, its suburbs, and the outlying villages and gold mines of the region. Now the people of means flee the more remote reaches of the Road for the suburbs. Who remains along this once heavily travelled highway? Who slaves for the mining companies today? Filmmaker Nic Hofmeyr takes to the road to meet them. South Africa's history echoes in their stories, and in the very landscape.

Exiled, yet internationally celebrated Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai's demons come to life as he tries to flee South Africa following increasingly fractious experiences on the Johannesburg art scene. His greatest demon “Black Guilt” is one he can never shake off, this burden of having to speak for his people. But Is this responsibility really a burden at all, or is it actually a superpower? Either way, will Kudzi ever be President of His Own State of Being?

Based on Sax Rohmer's cult novels "Sumuru", the futuristic fantasy take you to an Earth colony in the far future in which woman rule and men are used to propagate the race and work in the mines..

New York City is in a panic caused by an insane murderer; Maria, a police officer is entrusted with the case; to do this, she pretends to be a prostitute. One night, she meets a possible suspect who holds her and her partner hostage.