Visionary film maker Raoul Peck chronicles the life of Ernest Cole, whose photographs of apartheid-era South Africa and the U.S. in the 1960s revealed countries vastly different, yet eerily similar.

Ernest Cole, a South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience. His book House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was only 27 years old, led him into exile in NYC and Europe for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings. Raoul Peck recounts his wanderings, his turmoil as an artist and his anger, on a daily basis, at the silence or complicity of the Western world in the face of the horrors of the Apartheid regime. He also recounts how, in 2017, 60,000 35mm film negatives of his work were discovered in the safe of a Swedish bank, reintroducing a pivotal artist to a new audience. Featuring LaKeith Stanfield as the voice of Cole.

Run time 1 hour 46 minutes