Both actors earned Oscar nominations for ... the activist wife of Nelson Mandela (Terrence Howard). The movie shows how she fought for her husband's freedom and for the freedom of her people ...

Nelson Mandela and his ... sad and it's going to be a heartfelt movie," said former student Mitchell Atkinson, who met the South African leader when Mandela visited his namesake school in 2001.

Poitier is playing Nelson Mandela ... there's the awkward controversy with the South African actors' union. Its members feel Mandela's story belongs uniquely to South Africa, and they don't ...

He led a life filled with drama, struggle and political triumph, so it comes as little surprise that Nelson ... actors to play Mandela, because their off-screen personality overtakes the movie." ...

Morgan Freeman captures the spirit and presence of Nelson Mandela in his new film “Invictus.” Due out Friday, December 11, the film, which also stars Matt Damon, chronicles how the then newly ...

Actors Danny Glover, David Harewood, Morgan Freeman, Dennis Haysbert, Clarke Peters and Sidney Poitier have all attempted to play South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela, in the past.

there’s no way the entirety of Nelson Mandela’s life is going to fit into a two-and-a-half hour movie. Or a four-and-a-half hour movie for that matter." Fair point. But how does the ...

Johannesburg - British actors Idris Elba and Naomi Harris will be in South Africa over the weekend to promote their film, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, The New Age newspaper reported on Thursday. The ...

The remarkable life of Nelson Mandela is chronicled in this volume of the Great Souls series Friends colleagues and experts share their stories about Mandelas happy childhood extraordinary ...

A movie showing the effect former South African President Nelson Mandela had on a prison warden has had its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. Based on the memoirs of James Gregory, who guarded Mr ...