Tutu, which made its global debut at the Berlinale, received a special mention in the documentary awards and won the peace ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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'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 ...

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

South Africa’s racist system of Apartheid endured for generations and, so brutally was it maintained, appeared impregnable.