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Remember the Titans
Why this pick
Like Invictus, it uses a team sport season to make entrenched racial mistrust tangible, building toward hard-won solidarity through restrained, character-focused drama.
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MOVIE2009 2h 14m USA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
On 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela is released from Drakenstein Correctional Centre after having spent 27 years in jail. Four years later, Mandela is elected the South African apartheid referendum, 1992#Aftermath. His presidency faces enormous challenges in the History of South Africa (1994–present), including rampant poverty and crime, and Mandela is particularly concerned about racial divisions between black and white South Africans, which could lead to violence. The ill will which both groups hold towards each other is seen even in his own security detail where relations between the established white officers, who had guarded Mandela's predecessors, and the black African National Congress additions to the security detail, are frosty and marked by mutual distrust.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Morgan Freeman
Nelson Mandela
Matt Damon
Francois Pienaar
Julian Lewis Jones
Etienne Feyder
Leleti Khumalo
Mary
Patrick Lyster
Mr. Pienaar
Scott Eastwood
Joel Stransky
Langley Kirkwood
George
Danny Keogh
Rugby President