February 24, 2005
Release Date

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500 Years Later (2005)

Name: 500 Years Later
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2005-02-24

1h 46m

Running Time

February 24, 2005
Release Date

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Plot.

Why do drugs, crime, HIV, poor education, inferiority complexes, low expectations, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plague people of African descent around the world? Why, 500 years after the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, do Africans still struggle for basic freedom? Filmed in more than twenty countries across five continents, 500 YEARS LATER examines the atrocities that uprooted Africans from their cultures and homeland. Infused with the spirit and music of liberation, it chronicles the struggle of a people who fight for the most essential human right: freedom.

Where to Watch.

Rent

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Cast & Crew.

Owen 'Alik Shahadah

Director

M. K. Asante, Jr.

Writer

Toyin Agbetu

Self - Ligali Media

Molefi Kete Asante

Self - Professor Temple University

M.K. Asante

Writer

Ako Mitchell

Producer

Tunde Jegede

Composer

Details.

Release Date
February 24, 2005

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 46m

Budget
$1,000,000

Filming Locations
Egypt

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-02-12

Wiki.

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. 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.

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. In 2010, the sequel, Motherland, was released.