By Doshka Harvey

The epic documentary Have You Heard From Johannesburg by producer and director Connie Field premieres today at the Film Forum in New York City with a 2-week engagement from April 14-27.

Nelson Mandela in the 1990's, as seen in Connie Field's Have You Heard From Johannesburg

It is a 3 part documentary broken up into 7 films recounting the struggle of what it took to abolish apartheid in South Africa and the movement that took place worldwide to defeat that racist system.

Peter Hain, the British activist, National Chairman of the young Liberals, and spokesman for the Action Committee Against Racialism on June 22 1971, as seen in Connie Field's Have You Heard From Johannesburg

Part 1:  Mon/Wed 1:00 & 8:45, Tues 8:45, Thurs 5:30, Sat-Sun 1:00

The Road to Resistance (58 mins.), Hell of a Job (58 mins.), The New Generation (58 mins.)

Part 2:  Mon/Wed/Fri 5:30, Tues 1:00, Thurs 1:00 & 8:45, Sat-Sun 4:30

Fair Play (95 mins.), From Selma to Soweto (90 mins.)

Part 3:  Tues 5:30, Fri 1:00 & 8:45, Sat-Sun 8:00

The Bottom Line (83 mins.), Free at Last (75 mins.)

Soweto Day Demonstrations at South African Embassy, New York, June 17, 1991, as seen in Connie Field's Have You Heard From Johannesburg

For more information go to: http://www.filmforum.org/films/haveyouheard.html

Images courtesy of the Film Forum pr department