Told through the stories of five former prisoners, this is the story of political activists sent to the notorious Robben Island prison in the 1960s by the apartheid regime, who rise above their incarceration by creating a football league and finding an outlet for their passion and commitment to discipline through the Beautiful Game.
Az Abrahams
Sedick Isaacs
Presley Chweneyagae
Mark Shimmers
Wright Ngubeni
Anthony Suze
Tshepo Maseko
Lizo Sitoto
Merlin Balie
Marcus Solomon
Grant Swanby
Warder Delport
Dean Slater
Warder Fourie
Ramey Short
Warder Nel
Anelisa Phewa
Pro Malepe
Told through the stories of five former prisoners, this is the story of political activists sent to the notorious Robben Island prison in the 1960s by the apartheid regime, who rise above their incarceration by creating a football league and finding an outlet for their passion and commitment to discipline through the Beautiful Game.
South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black South African politician who was tortured during apartheid.
While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement.