Politics - Nelson Mandela's Fight for Freedom

The most in-depth, insightful and engrossing documentary on Nelson Mandela during the hottest years of the struggle between 1985 to 1994, spanning before his prison release to the ANCs momentous campaign to form government by 1994. It features the liberation struggles of the ANC, negotiations between the National Party and Mandela/ANC before and after Mandelas prison release, battles between the ANC and Zulu fighters who were organized and trained through a Third Force of National Party/ secret police agents, and ultimately the alliance between the ANC and National Party against the extreme alliance of white and black social reactionaries (AWB and Terre Blanche, IFP and Bop/Tribal State governments). Despite an intensely complex situation rife with violence, hate, and division, Mandelas upstanding moral character and brilliance shine through consistently - never does he sink towards revenge, small mindedness or lose his connection towards compassion and an understanding of the greater society. He maintains a highest, best mindset emphasizing a peaceful transition towards a multi-racial, democratic, inclusive society, despite being under the most trying of circumstances - upholding not only principled ideals but undertaking the necessary practical measures to achieve success based on the complex realities - something that todays activists can learn from.