Films like Goodbye Bafana
The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Film · 2013 · also drama and historyA chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Afri...
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Invictus
Film · 2009 · also drama and historyNewly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together thr...
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Richard Jewell
Film · 2019 · also drama and historyRichard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a co...
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Cry Freedom
Film · 1987 · also dramaA dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal...
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Brute Force
Film · 1947 · also dramaTimeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going...
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A Call to Spy
Film · 2020 · also drama and historyThe story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a di...
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Sing Sing
Film · 2024 · also dramaDivine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, h...
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The Zookeeper's Wife
Film · 2017 · also drama and historyThe account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
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The Defiant Ones
Film · 1958 · also dramaTwo convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
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The Way Back
Film · 2010 · also drama and historyA small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate ra...
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