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3 April 2006. ( 2006-04-03) His Big White Self is a 2006 documentary film made by Nick Broomfield. It is a sequel to his earlier documentary The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife (1991). It was first shown as part of More4 's Nick Broomfield week which began on 27 February 2006. The documentary follows Broomfield as he returns to South ...
Apr 3, 2006 · His Big White Self: Directed by Nick Broomfield. With Nick Broomfield, F.W. de Klerk, Nelson Mandela, L.M. Mbambalala. 15 years after his classic documentary "The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife", Nick Broomfield examines the history of the far-right AWB and its leader Eugene Terre'Blanche and returns to South Africa to catch up with his former driver J.P. Meyer and Meyer's now ex-wife Anita, and by using a disguise, once again secures an interview with Terre'Blanche.
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Rated 4.5/5 Stars • 02/16/23. Nick Broomfield leaves you either cowering behind a pillow, unable to watch what's going on onscreen, or sitting eyes bulging, open-mouthed at such ignorance in the ...
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His Big White Self. The aftermath of "The Leader" was deadly serious for all concerned. The final days of Apartheid led to the nominal defeat of the white right as the ANC came to power. More crucially, Eugene Terre'blanche, facing certain incarceration and national ridicule, had no doubt ordered the numerous death and bomb threats that ...
V'06. Nick Broomfield confronts white racism in South Africa a decade after the end of apartheid. The documentarian first encountered Eugene Terre'Blanche, leader of the South African neo-Nazi party (AWB), in his unforgettable The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife in 1991. Broomfield skipped like a public school prat around the ...
This film presents a good natured documentarian, trailing around behind the violent, loudmouthed ex-policeman who is a thoroughly disagreeable bully. An interesting profile of the dedicated and the disillusioned and the chaos a determined group can cause. Recommended. Stephen P.
Jun 20, 2006 · Filmmaker Nick Broomfield comes close to balancing his gonzo oncamera style with an equally disingenuous subject in docu profile "His Big White Self." Dropping in on prickly white supremacist ...