The award-winning documentary from the year 2000 shows post-apartheid South Africa and it's attempt to heal itself with truth telling rather than vengeance. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission worked for 30 month and processed crimes and human rights violations stemming from apartheid. Perpetrators that publicly confessed their deeds could expect amnesty.

http://vimeo.com/43087803 (Interview Desmond Tutu)

Following excerpt taken from California Newsreel (link below):

Long Night's Journey Into Day follows several TRC cases over a two-year period. The stories in the film underscore the universal themes of conflict, forgiveness, and renewal. 

• A white special forces officer, struggles to reach peace with the embittered wife of a black activist he killed 14 years before.
• A group of mothers, after enduring years of misinformation and denials by the authorities, learn the truth about how their sons were set up, betrayed and killed in a vicious police conspiracy. 
• A liberation movement combatant who blew up a bar frequented by the security police expresses his remorse about the civilians killed, but the sister of a victim remains doubtful. 
• A young black activist comes to recognize the anguish he caused by killing a white American student during a mob riot, while her parents see past their pain to embrace a new multi-racial South Africa. 

As it emerges from its tragedy, South Africa is showing the rest of the world that even the most bitter of conflicts can be addressed through honesty and communication. Long Night's Journey Into Day provides the definitive record of one of the most ambitious and innovative attempts at social reconciliation without precedent in human history.