Traces the rise of black nationalism in South Africa, beginning with Bambatas Rebellion in 1906. Includes the founding of the African National Congress in 1912, the Native Land Act and disinheritance, the construction of apartheid, the womens campaigns of the 1950s, Robert Sobukwe and the Pan-African Congress, the Sharpeville massacre, the hunger strikes at Robben Island prison, and Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement. Directed by Peter Davis.