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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

2013 · 2h 21m · PG-13 Drama, History
Directed by Justin Chadwick

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A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.

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All reviews
59%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Even those familiar with the history will be impressed and moved to see these events as Mandela experienced them, before the Nobel Prize and universal adulation recast the past in a glow of inevitability.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten

Nelson Mandela gets the Classics Illustrated treatment with this handsome, undemanding biopic.

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Rotten

The life of Nelson Mandela is simply too big, too complex and too important to be contained in one movie.

Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh

Elba has long been better than the film roles he's been offered, a tradition that continues with his leading role here.

Barbara VanDenburgh, Arizona Republic
Rotten

You keep wishing, as "Mandela" plays out, that this were more than one movie.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

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