500 Years Later

500 Years Later
Directed byOwen 'Alik Shahadah
Written byM. K. Asante, Jr.
Produced byOwen 'Alik Shahadah
Ako Oseyaba Mitchell
StarringKimani Nehusi
Molefi Kete Asante
Maulana Karenga
Muhammad Shareef
Paul Robeson, Jr.
Welsing
Amiri Baraka
Bill Cosby
Hakim Adi
Khaleel Muhammad
Mighty Gabby
M. K. Asante, Jr.
Music byTunde Jegede
Ocacia
Production
companies
Halaqah Media Films
Asante Filmworx
Distributed byCodeblack Entertainment
Release date
  • October 11, 2005 (2005-10-11)
Running time
108 minutes
CountriesUnited States
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

500 Years Later (፭፻ ዓመታት በኋላ 500 ʿamätatə bähwala) is a 2005 independent documentary film directed by Owen 'Alik Shahadah and written by M. K. Asante, Jr. It has won five international film festival awards in the category of Best Documentary, including the UNESCO "Breaking the Chains" award.[1][2][3] It has won other awards including Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, Best Documentary at the Bridgetown Film Festival in Barbados, Best Film at the International Black Cinema Film Festival in Berlin, and Best International Documentary at the Harlem International Film Festival in New York.[4]

500 Years Later has received praise and controversy, both for its creative documentary genre, and its social-political impact with relation to race study. The film premiered on February 28, 2005, at the Pan-African Awards (PAFF) and won Best Documentary there. It made its American television premiere on August 23, 2008, on TV One (Radio One), and Ethiopian Television premiere on October 27, 2007. It was shown nationally in South Africa on December 14, 2014, on SABC 2.[5][6] In 2010, the sequel, Motherland, was released.

  1. ^ "The Winners!!". Zanzibar International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2007-11-10. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  2. ^ "500 Years Later" at Cinema Politica.
  3. ^ "Re-Storying Africa" Archived 2015-12-10 at the Wayback Machine, Gauteng Film Commission, 2008.
  4. ^ "AFRICAN HOLOCAUST | Destroying the Horrors of 500 Years". www.africanholocaust.net. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  5. ^ TV Schedule for SABC2 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, 2014-12-14.
  6. ^ TV Schedule for SABC2 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, 2014-12-21.