1994: the Bloody Miracle (2014)

• documentary

Logline

An investigation into the resistors who tried to derail South Africa’s first democratic elections, pushing the country to the brink of civil war.

Plot Summary

Rewind to 1994 to a country on the brink of civil war: Chris Hani had just been assassinated, the AWB was mustering it’s forces, a proposed military coup was being plotted between unlikely allies and the country burned with inter-racial and inter-party violence. The conflict seemed certain to derail the already fraught discussions between Nelson Mandela’s negotiators and the outgoing apartheid government. A free and fair election seemed impossible. For the first time, victims, bystanders, key-players and conspirators are brought together in a new truth commission, a forensic examination of our remarkable present. But more than anything, 1994 – The Bloody Miracle reminds us just how crucial it is to understand our history if we are ever to move forward into an enlightened future.