Cry Freedom (1987)

Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) is the white editor of the Daily Dispatch Newspaper and is very critical of the views of Steve Biko (Denzel Washington), a charismatic South African Black Consciousness leader whose front-line role in the struggle for racial equality in South Africa causes him to be ”Banned”.

When Woods meets Biko face to face his perception begins to change and a friendship slowly develops between them. But Biko is killed in police custody.

Attempts by Woods to expose police complicity in the murder of Biko causes him and his family to become targets themselves. Now Woods must do all he can to reveal the truth about Biko’s death to the whole world but at the same time he fights for the safety of himself and his family.

A historical drama that portrays the true story of Steven Biko who was actually killed on 12 September 1977 in the custody of  the white-dominated South African police.