Cry Freedom is a 1987 film directed by Richard Attenborough based on the true story of the friendship between anti-apartheid activists Steve Biko and Donald Woods in 1970s South Africa. Biko was a leader of the Black Consciousness Movement who was banned and criticized the apartheid system, while Woods was a white liberal newspaper editor initially critical of Biko's views. After Biko's death in police custody, Woods helped expose police complicity in his death and had to flee the country to publish his book. The film depicts the two men's developing friendship as Woods comes to understand and support Biko's fight for racial equality in South Africa.

1. Cry Freedom, by John Briley Watch clip The true story of the friendship that shook South Africa and awakened the world Dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. The movie poster for Cry Freedom .

4. Segregated public facilities in Johannesburg, 1985.