Few public figures of the past 100 years have made as astounding a global impact as Nelson Mandela. The first democratically elected president of South Africa, Mandela was to his country what Martin ...

Nelson Mandela appears in Troublemaker by Antoine Fuqua, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. In Antoine Fuqua’s documentary “Troublemaker,” the ...

Nelson Mandela, an iconic South African president and human rights leader, has been the subject of countless books, documentaries and feature films.

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Antoine Fuqua always knew Nelson Mandela as an icon. But he had no idea he was such a rebel too, and a literal fighter. He remembered walking into a restaurant and seeing a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watch enough biographical documentaries on film and television and it becomes difficult not to think that filmmakers are making a ...

Premiering at Sundance, Antoine Fuqua discusses why the documentary centers the global icon’s own voice. “I wanted people to see him as a human being,” the director said.

'Troublemaker', premiering Jan. 27 at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, uses audio recordings the late South African leader made while writing his autobiography Born in 1918, Nelson Mandela became the ...

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PARK CITY, Utah — Antoine Fuqua always knew Nelson Mandela as an icon. But he had no idea he was such a rebel too, and a literal fighter. He remembered walking into a restaurant and seeing a picture ...

It was just part of what would be an enlightening journey in making the new documentary, “Troublemaker,” which has its world premiere Tuesday at the Sundance Film Festival.

FILE - Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid leader and president of the African National Congress, addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Dec. 3, 1991. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey, File) FILE - ...