

“His people needed a leader. He gave them a champion.”
Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
Director
Screenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$60,000,000
Revenue
$122,400,000

Hendrick Booyens
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.