Idris Elba has opened up about spending a night in prison to prepare for his role as Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom ... in a prison cell on Robben Island, which ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...

Nelson Mandela, whose successful struggle against South Africa ... for which I am prepared to die.” 9. In prison, Mandela lived in a small cell without a bed or plumbing, forced to do hard ...

It was here, he said, that Nelson Mandela ... fell, the prison was turned into the Robben Island Museum. The most powerful part of the tour is a visit to Mandela’s cell, a 7-by-9-foot room ...

Nelson Mandela was a South African revolutionary ... During his tenure in prison, Mandela regularly encountered a few repeated scenes; the view from his cell window, the gym facilities, and the ...

Follows the life of Nelson Mandela and his fight for freedom - from his childhood, to his 27 years in prison before becoming president and working to rebuild South Africa's once segregated society.

The play about the late former wife of Nelson Mandela ... of South Africa’s liberation struggle while her husband and other freedom fighters spent decades in prison. That meant constant ...

Mandela had the ability to go against the tenure of his time and yet, paradoxically, to persuade millions to follow him. Sir Trevor McDonald reports on Nelson Mandela, who went from freedom ...

If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart" Nelson Mandela led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy, and was the country's ...