London Recruits

After a 10 year wait BRHG are very pleased to announce a special one-off showing of London Recruits as part of this years festival. The film will be followed by a discussion by some of those who took part in actions against the apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1960s and 70s.

By the late 1960s, the Apartheid regime in South Africa had reached brutal new heights. Nelson Mandela and other freedom fighters had been imprisoned, killed or forced into exile. The African National Congress (ANC) was outlawed and broken, from the leadership through to the township cells.

In efforts to reinvigorate support for the liberation struggle, exiled ANC leader Oliver Tambo lit the fuse on a plan that saw young British women and men undertake missions on the ground in South Africa disguised as honeymooners, holiday makers and business trippers.

Winner of Best Documentary at the 2024 Johannesburg Film Festival, London Recruits is a nail-biting documentary thriller – combining never before seen archive footage, action packed drama and candid testimony from the recruits who risked it all in taking on one of the 20th century’s most feared and brutal regimes.

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As this is a Watershed hosted event we are confined by their pricing which is:

£11.00 full (plus 12% booking fee*) / £8.50 concessions (plus 12% booking fee*)

Aged 24 or under and refugees and asylum seekers, any screening, any day any time for £5.00 (plus 12% booking fee*).