Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2024)
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Raoul Peck
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Ernest Cole exposes the horror of Apartheid through photographs, which resulted in him fleeing to the United States to avoid the then ongoing persecution of black media members in South Africa. Most of his work stayed unpublished until 2017, when 60,000 negatives were found in a Swedish bank safe.
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Biographical documentary, biographical film, documentary film
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