This documentary explores the Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979), also known as the Second Chimurenga and the Zimbabwean War of Independence. It covers the conflict between the white-minority Rhodesian ...

Although the U.K. was sympathetic to Rhodesia's white population, many of whom had emigrated from Britain after World War II, it hoped to hold the Commonwealth together and refused to recognize ...

Since Rhodesia declared its independence in 1965, Wilson’s war of economic sanctions has cost Britain an estimated $500 million in lost trade with Rhodesia. The failure of the sanctions has ...

Gun battles. War! Dande River's lush riverine vegetation provided the much-needed cover for liberation fighters against Rhodesian war planes. Dande River had listened to many quarrels between ...

The film depicts 8-year-old Bobo's life on her family's Rhodesian farm during the Bush War's final stages. It explores the family's close bond with Africa's land and the war's impact on the region ...

The refusal of the white minority government to share power with the black majority led to a civil war called the Rhodesian Bush War. Begun in July 1964, it was fought by two insurgency forces ...

Ian Smith declaring Rhodesian independence in 1965 During World War II, Ian Smith served as a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force. Shot down over the Western Desert, he underwent plastic surgery to ...

He had some great leaves during his stay in Rhodesia. He went to Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Matopos and Livingstone Victoria Falls. At the end of the war he came home from Cape Town on the ...