Have You Heard From Johannesburg -- Film Review

An exhaustive, if sometimes exhausting, history lesson about the struggle to abolish apartheid in South Africa, Connie Field's mammoth documentary is likely to be considered the definitive treatment of its powerful subject. Comprising seven individual films with a cumulative running time of more than 8 1/2 hours, "Have You Heard From Johannesburg" (the title comes from a Gil Scott-Heron song) naturally will find a more receptive home on television and home video, but New York's Film Forum, presenting it in three parts, is to be commended for giving the series its world theatrical premiere.