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Come Back, Africa

History · Docudrama · World Cinema

In making this mixture of documentary and drama, director Lionel Rogosin’s aimed to reveal the harsh injustice of apartheid in Sophiatown, a South African ghetto where Black citizens formed their own vibrant community and culture. Rogosin spent a year meeting with locals in order to capture th…

Come Back, Africa/Black Roots

History · Documentary · Drama

Working secretly with activists and ordinary Africans, Lionel Rogosin created the first film exposing apartheid. He then took the fight for equality home to the US with the astonishing Black Roots.

On the Bowery

Documentary

ON THE BOWERY chronicles three days in the drinking life of Ray Salyer, a part-time railroad worker adrift on New York’s skid row. When the film first opened in 1956, it exploded on the screen, jump-started the post-war American independent scene and shortly won an Oscar nomination. Restored b…

On the Bowery: The Films of Lionel Rogosin Vol. 1

History · Documentary · Drama

Lionel Rogosin's portrait of life on New York's skid row remains devastating and powerful more than sixty years later. Also features making-of docs by the filmmaker's son Michael Rogosin.