South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the Black anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko.


Film programs

Neues Film-Programm nr. 8759

Books with substantial mentioning of Cry Freedom

Jonathan Hacker and David Price
Take 10, Contemporary British Film Directors
Oxford, New York, 1992

David Robinson
Richard Attenborough
London, 1992

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1988, A Survey of the Films of 1987
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988
pp. 87-90 info

Books with an entry on Cry Freedom

S. Torriano Berry, Venise T. Berry
Historical dictionary of African American cinema
Lanham, Maryland - Toronto - Plymouth, UK, 2007