Cry Freedom (1987)

Actors

• Denzel Washington (actor)
• Richard Attenborough (producer)
• Richard Attenborough (director)
• Kevin Kline (actor)
• George Fenton (composer)
• Julian Glover (actor)
• Garrick Hagon (actor)
• William Morgan Sheppard (actor)
• Ian McNeice (actor)
• Kevin McNally (actor)
• Timothy West (actor)
• Ian Richardson (actor)
• John Thaw (actor)
• Penelope Wilton (actress)
• Nick Tate (actor)

Genres

• Biography
• Drama

Taglines:

The true story of the friendship that shook South Africa and awakened the world

Quotes:

Judge: Why do you people call yourselves black? You look more brown than black.::Steve Biko: Why do you call yourselves white? You look more pink than white.

Donald Woods: Do you know anyone we can trust, who has a car?::Tami: I trust me! And I have a car! The Boers will shit themselves!

Steve Biko: ...but you a black child, smart or dumb, you're born into this and smart or dumb, you'll die in it

Steve Biko: You can beat or jail me or even kill me, but I am not going to be what you want me to be!

Steve Biko: My lord, blacks are not unaware of the hardships they endure or what the government is doing to them. we want them to stop accepting these hardships - to confront them. People must not just give in to the hardship of life, they must find a way, even in these environments, to - to develop hope - hope for themselves, hope for this country. now I think that is what black consciousness is all about. Not without any reference to the white man. To try to build up a sense of our own humanity - our legitimate place in the world.

Steve Biko: When I was a student, trying to qualify for the jobs you people will let us have, I suddenly realized that i wasn't just good jobs that were white. The only history we read was made by the white man, written by the white man. Television, cars, medicines - all invented by the white man, even football. Now the way like that, it's not hard to believe there's something inferior about being born black. I began to think this idea of inferiority was an even bigger problem for us than what the Afrikaans were doing to us. At first a black man had to believe he had as much capacity to be a doctor, a leader, as a white man.

Steve Biko: It's a miracle a child survives here at all. People are so desperate for anything they'll beat a kid bloody if they thought he had five Rand. But if you do run fast enough, if you do survive, you grew up in these streets, these houses. Your parents try, but in the end, you only get the education the white man will give you. Then you go to the city to work or shop, and you see their streets, their cars, their houses, and you begin to feel there is something not quite right about yourself. About your humanity. Something to do with your blackness because no matter how smart or dumb a white child is he is born to that world. And you, a black child, smart or dumb you are born into this. And smart or dumb you die in it.

Steve Biko: I just expect to be treated like you expect to be treated. Come on, what are you so afraid of? Once you try you see there's nothing to fear. We're just as weak and human as you are.

Steve Biko: We are going to change South Africa. What we've got to decide is the best way to do that. And as angry as we have the right to be, let us remember that we are in the struggle to kill the idea that one kind of man is superior to another kind of man. And killing that idea is not dependent on the white man. We must stop looking to him to give us something. We have to fill the black community with our own pride. We have to teach our black children black history, tell them about our black heroes, our black culture, so they don't face the white man believing they are inferior. Then we'll stand up to him in anyway he chooses. Conflict, if he likes, but with an open hand, too, to say we can all build a South Africa worth living in - a South Africa for equals, black or white, a South Africa as beautiful as this land is, as beautiful as we are.

State Prosecutor: But your own words demand for DIRECT CONFRONTATION!::Steve Biko: That's right, we demand confrontation.::State Prosecutor: Isn't that a demand for violence?::Steve Biko: Well, you and I are now in confrontation, but I see no violence.

Woods, Donald Filmography

• Sweet Revenge
  1976, role: actor , character name: Car Salesman
• True Grit
  1969, role: actor , character name: Barlow
• Istanbul Express
  1968, role: actor , character name: Shepherd
• A Time to Sing
  1968, role: actor , character name: Vernon Carter
• Tammy and the Millionaire
  1967, role: actor , character name: John Brent
• Dimension 5
  1966, role: actor , character name: Kane
• Moment to Moment
  1965, role: actor , character name: Mr. Singer
• Kissin' Cousins
  1964, role: actor , character name: General Alvin Donford
• Five Minutes to Live
  1961, role: actor , character name: Ken Wilson
• I'll Give My Life
  1960, role: actor , character name: Pastor Goodwin
• 13 Ghosts
  1960, role: actor , character name: Cyrus Zorba
• Hotel Cosmopolitan
  1957, role: actor , character name: Host
• Screen Snapshots 8859: Mr. Rhythm's Holiday
  1956, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Afternoon Film Festival
  1956, role: actor , character name: Host
• The Studebaker Story
  1953, role: actor , character name: John Mohler Studebaker
• The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
  1953, role: actor , character name: Capt. Phil Jackson
• The Orchid Award
  1953, role: actor , character name: New York-based Host
• Born to the Saddle
  1953, role: actor , character name: Matt Daggett
• Screen Snapshots: Meet Mr. Rhythm, Frankie Laine
  1952, role: actor , character name: Himself
• All That I Have
  1951, role: actor , character name: Pastor William Goodwin
• The Du Pont Story
  1950, role: actor , character name: Irénée du Pont
• The Lost Volcano
  1950, role: actor , character name: Paul Gordon
• Mr. Music
  1950, role: actor , character name: Tippy Carpenter
• Johnny One-Eye
  1950, role: actor , character name: Vet
• Barbary Pirate
  1949, role: actor , character name: Maj. Tom Blake
• Free for All
  1949, role: actor , character name: Roger Abernathy
• Scene of the Crime
  1949, role: actor , character name: Bob Herkimer
• Daughter of the West
  1949, role: actor , character name: Ralph Conners
• Stepchild
  1947, role: actor , character name: Ken Bullock
• Bells of San Fernando
  1947, role: actor , character name: Michael 'Gringo' O'Brien
• The Return of Rin Tin Tin
  1947, role: actor , character name: Father Matthew
• Night and Day
  1946, role: actor , character name: Ward Blackburn
• The Time, the Place and the Girl
  1946, role: actor , character name: Martin Drew
• Never Say Goodbye
  1946, role: actor , character name: Rex DeVallon
• God Is My Co-Pilot
  1945, role: actor
• Roughly Speaking
  1945, role: actor , character name: Rodney Crane
• Star in the Night
  1945, role: actor , character name: Hitchhiker
• Wonder Man
  1945, role: actor , character name: Monte Rossen
• Hollywood Canteen
  1944, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Enemy of Women
  1944, role: actor , character name: Dr. Hans Traeger, MD
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  1944, role: actor , character name: Brother Juniper
• Hi'ya, Sailor
  1943, role: actor , character name: Bob Jackson
• Corregidor
  1943, role: actor , character name: Dr. Michael
• Watch on the Rhine
  1943, role: actor , character name: David Farrelly
• So's Your Uncle
  1943, role: actor , character name: Steve Curtis
• March On, America!
  1942, role: actor , character name: Francis Scott Key
• The Gay Sisters
  1942, role: actor , character name: Penn Sutherland Gaylord
• Thru Different Eyes
  1942, role: actor , character name: Ted Farnsworth
• Sky Raiders
  1941, role: actor , character name: Captain Bob Dayton
• Bachelor Daddy
  1941, role: actor , character name: Edward Smith
• I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
  1941, role: actor , character name: Joel Grant aka Joseph Elmer
• Sky Raiders
  1941, role: actor , character name: John Kane
• Mexican Spitfire
  1940, role: actor , character name: Dennis Lindsay
• Young America Flies
  1940, role: actor , character name: John Woodward
• Forgotten Girls
  1940, role: actor , character name: Dan Donahue
• City of Chance
  1940, role: actor , character name: Steve Walker
• If I Had My Way
  1940, role: actor , character name: Fred Johnson
• Mexican Spitfire Out West
  1940, role: actor , character name: Dennis 'Denny' Lindsay
• Love, Honor and Oh Baby!
  1940, role: actor
• The Girl from Mexico
  1939, role: actor , character name: Dennis 'Denny' Lindsay
• Heritage of the Desert
  1939, role: actor , character name: John Abbott
• Beauty for the Asking
  1939, role: actor , character name: Jeffrey Martin
• The Black Doll
  1938, role: actor , character name: Nick Halstead
• Danger on the Air
  1938, role: actor , character name: Benjamin Franklin Butts
• Romance on the Run
  1938, role: actor , character name: Barry Drake
• Big Town Girl
  1937, role: actor , character name: Mark Tracey
• The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
  1937, role: actor , character name: Perry Mason
• Once a Doctor
  1937, role: actor , character name: Dr.Steven Brace
• Sea Devils
  1937, role: actor , character name: Steve Webb
• Charlie Chan on Broadway
  1937, role: actor , character name: Speed Patten
• Talent Scout
  1937, role: actor , character name: Steve Stewart
• Road Gang
  1936, role: actor , character name: James 'Jim' Larrabie
• Anthony Adverse
  1936, role: actor , character name: Vincent Nolte
• A Son Comes Home
  1936, role: actor , character name: Denny
• Isle of Fury
  1936, role: actor , character name: Eric Blake
• The Song of a Nation
  1936, role: actor , character name: Francis Scott Key
• The Story of Louis Pasteur
  1936, role: actor , character name: Dr. Jean Martel
• The White Angel
  1936, role: actor , character name: Charles Cooper
• A Tale of Two Cities
  1935, role: actor , character name: Charles Darnay
• Frisco Kid
  1935, role: actor , character name: Charles Ford
• The Florentine Dagger
  1935, role: actor , character name: Juan Cesare
• A Dream Comes True
  1935, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Stranded
  1935, role: actor , character name: John Wesley
• The Case of the Curious Bride
  1935, role: actor , character name: Carl
• Hollywood Newsreel
  1934, role: actor , character name: Himself
• She Was a Lady
  1934, role: actor , character name: Tommy Traill
• Merry Wives of Reno
  1934, role: actor , character name: Frank Hammond
• Sweet Adeline
  1934, role: actor , character name: Sid Barnett
• Fog Over Frisco
  1934, role: actor , character name: Tony Sterling
• Charlie Chan's Courage
  1934, role: actor , character name: Bob Crawford
• As the Earth Turns
  1934, role: actor , character name: Stan
• Motorboat Mamas
  1928, role: actor , character name: Yacht Club Patron

Woods, Donald Filmography

• Assignment: A Short Break in the Interference
  1993, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Cry Freedom
  1987, role: writer
• Cry Freedom
  1987, role: miscellaneous crew
• Biko
  1986, role: writer