‘Cry Freedom’: A Crusade Against South Africa’s Apartheid

This biopic focuses on two South Africans who oppose their country’s apartheid.

Steven Biko (Denzel Washington, L) and Donald Woods (Kevin Kline), in "Cry, Freedom." Universal Pictures

PG | 2h 37min | Drama | 1987

Producer-director Richard Attenborough’s biopic is about two South African men, one black, one white, who together resisted the 1970s apartheid.