Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

A courtroom scene with four men standing in the foreground, one raising a fist, and several individuals seated at a table in the background, dressed in black robes.

“It wasn’t politics that liberated a nation, it was love.”

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom celebrates Nelson Mandela’s extraordinary journey from his childhood in a rural village to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa. It explores the Mandela unknown to most of the world — the lover of fancy cars, a ladies’ man, the boxing enthusiast and playboy, the skillful lawyer and freedom fighter. Directed by Justin Chadwick and starring Idris Elba, the film is an intimate portrait of the making of a modern icon, based on Nelson Mandela's titular biography.

Cosponsored by the Black Graduate Business Association (BGBA) at the SC Johnson College of Business.

Part of our "Cinematic Court Cases" series. Courtesy of Swank Motion Pictures. In English and Afrikaans with English subtitles.