Before i could see 500years later,my friends were always telling me about this documentary.And when i eventually got it,i could not stop watching it.i watched it over and over again.it was too rich with knowledge and needed more time to watch it and learn.i have never spent so much time watching a documentary like i did with 500years later.I wonder what the director was thinking before he came up with the idea.He is a legend.500years later have thought me a lot of things that i did not know before as a young African man.I can not wait to see it's continuation.thumb up for the directors and whoever that was responsible for the making of 500years later.It was exclusive.good work

This DVD should be shown in all African schools as well.It is the best educational material I have seen. I am also proud it was 100% funded and made by Africans. I had been looking and looking everywhere for something like this.Every Black person should see this film. Please watch it again and again.I would have liked to see more of the Islamic and Arab slavery. I wish it could have been promoted a bit more.It needs to be more widely available. Great DVD.Peace and African Unity.

500 years is the best documentary I have ever seen. It is informative, educational, entertaining and colourful. It is suitable for all audiences.The exceptional way the documentary is put together leaves one in awe of the producer and his assistants.There is inclusion of academics, ordinary people, school children and people of different races. This diversity is refreshing and stimulating. Apart from that the various scenes and places of interest bring an insight into the way others live.500 years is exceptional and educational, I would recommend that people of all races and cultures go to see this documentary, and that it is introduced in schools around the world

500 Years Later is more than a film but rather a transcontinental discussion between some the greatest and most articulate thinkers of the African global nation. The film deals with the position of the African Diaspora 500 years after the forced migration of Africans from the continent. The sensitive direction of Director Owen 'Alik Shahadah and perceptively of Writer M.K. Asante Jr., get to the crux of the problems that continue to affect the melanin race of people despite their background or national affiliation.Interspersed between the learned words of cultural activist Dr. Maulana Karenga (Founder of Kwanzaa), Writer Dr. Francis Cress Welsing (Isis papers), Dr. Molefi K Asante (Father of "Afrocentrity"), Andrew Muhammad (Author "Hidden history), among others, are conversations with laypeople who reflect the conflicts of racial inequalities in their own lives. The film is tied together by an array of images from the coast of West Africa, to the city pulse of London, to the shores of Barbados and the environs of America with haunting melodies by composer Tunde Jegede that pluck at heartstrings and sing the audience into a realization of their past and present self."500 Years Later" is not a film to be watched twice, three, or even five times, instead it is a timely audiovisual reference book that illuminates the challenges of continental Africans and that of the Diaspora. The poignant symbology that separates the chapters and the clear messages from the cast reveals new information with every frame making it a film as relevant as a dictionary on global Pan-African thought. "500 Years Later" is a work of courage that should be instituted in schools, churches and community centers urging leaders and children to play a more active role in the growth of a stable foundation for future generations to stand.The film goes past explaining the problems of people by incorporating within it a glimpse of hope into the future. It is an apt dialogue between laymen, scholars and philosophers about the similarities of experience born from a segregated and demoralized kind of man. '500 Years Later' serves not only as a healthy reminder of the strength of the global African but also a caution against the defeatist nature that has sunk beneath the barrier of skin. A quandary that can only be erased with time, patience and education, ensuring a stronger kind and race of Human that will transcend the definition of color and nationality and ultimately embrace the beauty of differences and learn from the undiluted knowledge of ancestors.