You can't help loving Nelson Mandela. And you can't help loving Morgan "The-Voice-of-God" Freeman playing Nelson Mandela. "Invictus" is ostensibly about a rugby team helping to unite a nation, but ...

Composed by British poet William Ernest Henley, Invictus – Latin for Unconquered – was a poem that greatly inspired the late Nelson Mandela during the long years of his imprisonment at Robben ...

Morgan Freeman’s performance as Nelson Mandela in “Invictus” is, like Clint Eastwood’s film as a whole, constructed of deliberate decisions and never feels false. Freeman is… ...

nelson-mandela.jpg. Morgan Freeman played Nelson Mandela in the 2009 movie, "Invictus." ...

The story: After the fall of apartheid in South Africa, President Nelson Mandela tries to unite his divided country -- by joining forces with the captain of the nation's rugby team, which makes a ...

“Invictus” is named after a poem by William Ernest Henley, a particular favorite of Mandela, who was especially inspired by its last two lines: “I am the master of my fate: I am the captain ...

Only Clint Eastwood would make an inspirational sports movie without the big halftime pep talk. And “Invictus” is better for it. Eastwood directed this based-on-fact story set during the 1995 ...

Heroic in his deeds, graceful in his manner, sainted in his image, Nelson Mandela long served as both cause and muse in the entertainment community. From the 1960s, when he was a political ...

Songs directly about Mandela included a Bono-Joe Strummer collaboration, “46664”³: “Free Nelson Mandela,” by Special A.K.A., an off-shoot of the Specials, and Simple Minds’ “Mandela ...