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500 Years Later

  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 46m
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6.8/10
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500 Years Later (2005)
Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African decent globally – Why? 500 years later from the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedom–Why?

500 YEARS LATER is a critically acclaimed multi-award winning documentary filmed in five continents, 500 Years Later engages the authentic retrospective voice, told from the African vantage-point of those whom history has sought to silence by examining the legacy of enslavement that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland. 

500 Years Later is a timeless compelling journey, infused with the spirit and music of liberation that chronicles the struggle of a people who have fought and continue to fight for the most essential human right – freedom.
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Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African descent globally - Why? 500 yea... Read allCrime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African descent globally - Why? 500 years later from the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, Africans are still struggli... Read allCrime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African descent globally - Why? 500 years later from the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedom-Why? Filmed in five continents, and over twenty countries, 500 Years ... Read all

  • Director
    • Owen Alik Shahadah
  • Writers
    • M.K. Asante
    • Owen Alik Shahadah
  • Stars
    • Kolfi Adu
    • Sona Jobarteh
    • Hunter Adams III
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    206
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    • Director
      • Owen Alik Shahadah
    • Writers
      • M.K. Asante
      • Owen Alik Shahadah
    • Stars
      • Kolfi Adu
      • Sona Jobarteh
      • Hunter Adams III
    • 17User reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins total

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    Kolfi Adu
    • Self - African Storyteller
    Sona Jobarteh
    • Self - Kora Player
    • (as Maya Jobarteh)
    Hunter Adams III
    • Self - Neuroscientist
    Hakim Adi
    • Self - Historian
    • (as Dr. Hakim Adi)
    Toyin Agbetu
    • Self - Ligali Media
    Mukasa Afrika
    • Self - Teacher at Lotus Academy
    Ras Kumasi
    • Self - Afruika Bantu School Teacher
    Adisa Alkebulan
    • Self - Lecturer
    • (as Dr. Adisa Alkebulan)
    Molefi Kete Asante
    • Self - Professor Temple University
    • (as Dr. Molefi Asante)
    Afrar Afriyea
    • Self - Afruika Bantu Saturday School
    M.K. Asante
    M.K. Asante
    • Self - Writer
    • (as M.K. Asante Jr.)
    Sister Aya
    • Self - Afruika Bantu Saturday School
    Amiri Baraka
    Amiri Baraka
    • Self - Poet and Activist
    • (archive sound)
    David Commissiong
    • Self - Pan-African Affairs Barbados
    Kevin Farmer
    • Self - Barbadian Historian
    Mighty Gabby
    • Self - Barbadian Cultural Ambassador
    • (as The Mighty Gabby)
    Nelson George
    Nelson George
    • Self - Playwright
    Asher Hoyles
    • Self - Teacher and Writer
    • Director
      • Owen Alik Shahadah
    • Writers
      • M.K. Asante
      • Owen Alik Shahadah
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      California Newsreel who applauded the approach said "While we applaud your effort to present African and African American history in a new and more favorable light, we think that your innovative techniques and broad scope are too radical for our largely academic market." The film is now a standard in most American universities.
    • Quotes
      • Maulana Karenga: The other thing they try to do is make us responsible for our own enslavement. And here they collapse three kinds of people: perpetrators, collaborators and victims. You can't do that!"
      • Maulana Karenga: Not just burning some small, thatched roof houses but destroying towns, cities, villages, great works of art, great literature's and the people that made that art and literature! Songs we would never hear! Histories we would never know! Art we would never see! Because the European had the capacity to destroy and didn't have the moral restraint not to
    • Connections
      Followed by The Black Candle (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      Tear for the World
      Performed by Ocacia

      Written by Owen Alik Shahadah (as Owen Shahadah) & Nadia Kanouche

      Courtesy of Souljazzfunk.com

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    Details

    • Release date
      • February 24, 2005 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 500 lat później
    • Filming locations
      • Accra, Ghana
    • Production company
      • Halaqah Media
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    Box office

    • Budget
      • $1,000,000 (estimated)
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    Tech specs

    • Runtime
      • 1h 46m(106 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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