Secret Safari, The (2001)

This is a record of one of the most successful and audacious military operations of the armed struggle against apartheid in South Africa. In 1986, the ANC set up an overland safari company that sold holidays to unwitting tourists, used as the cover to smuggle weapons into South Africa from Zambia and Zimbabwe. Volunteers from Britain and The Netherlands drove the safari truck and worked with South African counterparts in covert missions to import and then distribute the weapons inside the country. The safari operations brought in about forty tonnes of weapons over a period of seven years. No one was ever caught. A tale of individuals of courage, cunning and suspense, with tightly shot reconstructions of events using the original operatives and interviews with the passengers who discover, on camera, what was actually under their seats.