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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.
3 apr 2006 · His Big White Self. 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 ... Read all.
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- Documentary
- Nick Broomfield
- 2006-04-03
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.
His Big White Self 2006 1h 34m Documentary List Reviews 89% Audience Score 250+ Ratings Filmmaker Nick Broomfield interviews Eugène Terre'Blanche, a former South African political leader.
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- Nick Broomfield
- Documentary
His Big White Self 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 Broomfield was subjected to following the film's release in 1991.
If you can imagine that, then you can imagine how crazy Eugene Terre'Blanche was to found the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) a backlash organization of radical white supremacists alarmed by any liberalization of one of the most odious systems of government ever witnessed by the world.
- Nick Broomfield
- Lafayette Films
The maverick director follows up "The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife" with "His Big White Self", a sequel of sorts that catches up with the titular trio of his career defining 1991 documentary that started off as an exploration of apartheid reign in South Africa that developed into a ghastly portrayal of a Nazi propaganda progeny (The ...
