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The Bang Bang Club

The Bang Bang Club

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 22, 2011

Runtime

1h 46m

Genres

Drama, History

User Score

66%

Original Title

The Bang Bang Club

Production Companies

Film Foundry Partners

Director

Steven Silver

Description

In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.