You can't help loving Nelson Mandela. And you can't help ... Together they form an unlikely alliance. "Invictus" (Latin for unconquerable) is a poem by William Ernest Henley that helped Mandela ...

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud.

These are a few lines from the poem "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley, which Nelson Mandela kept on his bare wall in prison. And the lines above, and the poem as a whole are such a beautiful ...

Morgan Freeman‘s performance as Nelson Mandela in “Invictus ... Yet when Freeman is front and center, “Invictus” — its name taken from the poem Mandela says helped him survive 27 ...

A voiceover in that sequence recites “Invictus,” the Victorian poem Mandela has recommended ... Old-fashioned treatment of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) used the 1995 Rugby World Cup ...

Elizabeth Alexander, who read the inaugural poem at the swearing-in of President Obama in 2009, had years earlier written "A Poem for Nelson ... played Mandela in 2009's "Invictus," directed ...

Freeman, an actor of such august bearing that his roles have ranged from judges to God, played Mandela in “Invictus,” about ... earlier written “A Poem for Nelson Mandela,” which featured ...

Nelson Mandela, a former prisoner who had been ... a piece of paper with the Victorian poem "Invictus" written on it -- never actually happened. "That particular poem was important to Mandela ...