# The best films about apartheid

Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela, Soweto and the 1995 Rugby World Cup: the films about apartheid South Africa recommended by Donc Voilà Quoi and Apaixonados por História.

- 17 votes · 11 items
- May 29, 2025 · Bianca Pinto
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## Top 11

1. **The Power of One (1992)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — John G. Avildsen. An English boy grows up boxing under apartheid, from Bryce Courtenay's novel.
2. **Sarafina! (1992)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Darrell Roodt. A Soweto schoolgirl and her teacher, with Whoopi Goldberg. A musical.
3. **Invictus (2009)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Clint Eastwood. Mandela and the 1995 Rugby World Cup, with Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.
4. **Goodbye Bafana (2007)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Bille August. The white guard who watched over Mandela in prison.
5. **A Dry White Season (1989)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Euzhan Palcy. A white teacher discovers police brutality, with Donald Sutherland and Marlon Brando.
6. **Catch a Fire (2006)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Phillip Noyce. A worker wrongly accused who becomes an ANC fighter.
7. **In My Country (2004)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — John Boorman. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, with Juliette Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson.
8. **Black Butterflies (2011)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Paula van der Oest. The Afrikaans poet Ingrid Jonker.
9. **Madiba (2017)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Miniseries with Laurence Fishburne as Nelson Mandela.
10. **Cry Freedom (1987)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Richard Attenborough. Journalist Donald Woods and activist Steve Biko, with Denzel Washington.
11. **Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Justin Chadwick. Idris Elba as Nelson Mandela, from the autobiography.

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