Breaking the Line (2008)

In South Africa, Rugby has never been just a game. The relationship between politics and sport during the apartheid era in South Africa has been widely explored, but this documentary breaks new ground by telling the little known story of an interracial rugby match that created a huge media storm in the turbulent year of 1976. At the Dan Qeqe Stadium in the New Brighton Township in the Eastern Cape on 10th October, the brewing tension and controversy over a sporting event that challenged the fundamental doctrine of apartheid culminated in an explosive game watched by over 10,000 spectators at the stadium. Interviews with rugby greats and archival match-footage underscore a compelling tale.