Film showing: London Recruits

If you missed the showing of London Recruits as part of this year’s radical history festival then there is another opportunity to see it on Thursday 1 May at the Curzon in Clevedon. 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.

The showing will include Q&A with the director Gordon Main and some of the recruits including Sean Hosey, Bob Newland and Bevis Miller.

Book tickets here. Price £10.00.