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Cry Freedom, the Glossary

Cry Freedom is a 1987 epic biographical drama film directed and produced by Richard Attenborough, set in late-1970s apartheid-era South Africa.^[1]

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British political drama films
Films directed by Richard Attenborough
Films produced by Richard Attenborough
Films scored by Jonas Gwangwa
Films set in Botswana
Films set in Lesotho
Films shot in Zimbabwe
Films with screenplays by John Briley
Steve Biko affair
Xhosa-language films
Zulu-language films

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Academy Award for Best Original Song

The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Alec McCowen

Alexander Duncan McCowen, (26 May 1925 – 6 February 2017) was an English actor.

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Apartheid

Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.

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Arms embargo

An arms embargo is a restriction or a set of sanctions that applies either solely to weaponry or also to "dual-use technology." An arms embargo may serve one or more purposes.

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At the Movies (1986 TV program)

At the Movies (originally Siskel & Ebert & the Movies, and later At the Movies with Ebert and Roeper) is an American movie review television program produced by Disney–ABC Domestic Television in which two film critics share their opinions of newly released films.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Backpacking (hiking)

Backpacking is the outdoor recreation of carrying gear on one's back while hiking for more than a day.

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BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Best Actor in a Supporting Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding supporting performance in a film.

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BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography

Best Cinematography is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize a cinematographer who has delivered outstanding cinematography in a film.

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BAFTA Award for Best Direction

The BAFTA Award for Best Direction, formerly known as David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction, is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to a film director for a specific film.

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BAFTA Award for Best Editing

Best Editing is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize a film editor who has delivered outstanding editing in a film.

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BAFTA Award for Best Film

The BAFTA Award for Best Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards.

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BAFTA Award for Best Original Music

This is a list of winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Music, formerly known as the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music, which is presented to film composers, given out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts since 1968.

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BAFTA Award for Best Sound

This is a list of winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound, which is presented to sound designers, sound editors, sound engineers, and sound mixers, given out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts since 1969.

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Bantu peoples

The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Biko (book)

Biko is a biography about Black Consciousness Movement leader and anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko.

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Biko (song)

"Biko" is an anti-apartheid protest song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel. Cry Freedom and Biko (song) are Steve Biko affair.

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Biographical film

A biographical film or biopic is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people.

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Black Consciousness Movement

The Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) was a grassroots anti-apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s out of the political vacuum created by the jailing and banning of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress leadership after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960.

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Black People's Convention

The Black People's Convention (BPC) was a national coordinating body for the Black Consciousness movement of South Africa.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.

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Botswana

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Box office

A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event.

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Box Office Mojo

Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Awards, is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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British High Commission

A British High Commission is a British diplomatic mission, equivalent to an embassy, found in countries that are members of the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Broadcast syndication

Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast television shows or radio programs to multiple television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air on.

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Bruce Haigh

Bruce Douglas Haigh (6 August 1945 – 7 April 2023) was an Australian political commentator and diplomat.

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Buster (film)

Buster is a 1988 British romantic crime comedy-drama based on events from the Great Train Robbery, starring Phil Collins and Julie Walters. Cry Freedom and Buster (film) are 1980s British films.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Cape Province

The Province of the Cape of Good Hope (Provinsie Kaap die Goeie Hoop), commonly referred to as the Cape Province (Kaapprovinsie) and colloquially as The Cape (Die Kaap), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa.

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Cape Town

Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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CinemaScore

CinemaScore is a market research firm based in Las Vegas.

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Daily Dispatch

The Daily Dispatch is a South African newspaper published in East London in the province of Eastern Cape.

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David Aubrey Scott

Sir David Aubrey Scott (3 August 1919 – 27 December 2010) was a British diplomat who served as High Commissioner to New Zealand and Ambassador to South Africa.

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David Sirota

David J. Sirota (born November 2, 1975) is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever, a reader-supported investigative news outlet focused on exposing the negative influence of corporate corruption on American society.

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Denzel Washington

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer, and director.

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Desson Thomson

Desson Patrick Thomson is a former speechwriter for the Obama administration and former film critic for The Washington Post.

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Donald Woods

Donald James Woods (15 December 1933 – 19 August 2001) was a South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist. Cry Freedom and Donald Woods are Steve Biko affair.

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Drama (film and television)

In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Durban

Durban (eThekwini, from itheku meaning "bay, lagoon") is the third-most populous city in South Africa, after Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.

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DVD region code

DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique introduced in 1997.

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DVD-Video

DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVDs.

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East London, South Africa

East London (eMonti; Oos-Londen) is a city on the southeastern coast of South Africa, in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape Province.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Epic film

Epic films have large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle.

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Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise counties.

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Gene Siskel

Eugene Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune.

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George Fenton

George Richard Ian Howe (born 19 October 1949), known professionally as George Fenton, is an English composer.

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Gerry Humphreys

Gerry Humphreys OBE (11 May 1931 – 5 December 2006) was a Welsh sound engineer.

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Gert Boshoff

Lieutenant General Gert Johannes Jacob Boshoff (28 April 193122 October 2014) was a South African Army general.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama is a Golden Globe Award that was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Director

The Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture is a Golden Globe Award that has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization composed of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America, since 1943.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama is a Golden Globe Award that has been awarded annually since 1944 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).

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Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score is a Golden Globe Award presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947.

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Government of South Africa

The Government of South Africa, or South African Government, is the national government of the Republic of South Africa, a parliamentary republic with a three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, operating in a parliamentary system.

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The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media (including its previous names) is the Grammy Awards awarded to songs written for films, television, video games or other visual media.

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Harare

Harare, formerly known as Salisbury, is the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.

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High commissioner

High commissioner is the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment.

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House arrest

In justice and law, house arrest (also called home confinement, home detention, or, in modern times, electronic monitoring) is a measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to their residence.

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Hunger strike

A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance where participants fast as an act of political protest, usually with the objective of achieving a specific goal, such as a policy change.

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Ian Richardson

Ian William Richardson (7 April 19349 February 2007) was a British actor from Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Internal resistance to apartheid

Internal resistance to apartheid in South Africa originated from several independent sectors of South African society and took forms ranging from social movements and passive resistance to guerrilla warfare.

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Itching powder

Itching powder is a powder or powder-like substance that induces itching when applied onto human skin.

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Janet Maslin

Janet R. Maslin (born August 12, 1949) is an American journalist, best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times.

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Jimmy Kruger

James Thomas Kruger (20 December 1917 – 9 May 1987) was a South African lawyer and politician of Welsh descent who was part of the conservative National Party government which championed apartheid. Cry Freedom and Jimmy Kruger are Steve Biko affair.

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John Briley

Richard John Briley (June 25, 1925 – December 14, 2019) was an American writer best known for screenplays of biographical films.

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John Hargreaves (actor)

John William Hargreaves (28 November 1945 – 8 January 1996) was an Australian actor.

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John Matshikiza

John Matshikiza (26 November 1954 – 15 September 2008) was a South African actor, theatre director, poet and journalist.

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John Simon (critic)

John Ivan Simon (né Simmon; May 12, 1925 − November 24, 2019) was an American writer and literary, theater, and film critic.

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John Thaw

John Edward Thaw, (3 January 1942 – 21 February 2002) was an English actor in television, stage and cinema, best known for his starring role in the television series Inspector Morse as Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse and The Sweeney as Detective Inspector Jack Regan.

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Jonas Gwangwa

Jonas Mosa Gwangwa (19 October 1937 – 23 January 2021) was a South African jazz musician, songwriter and producer.

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Jonathan Bates

Jonathan Bates (1 November 1939 – 31 October 2008) was an English sound editor.

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Josette Simon

Josette Patricia Simon (born 1959 / 1960) is a British actor.

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Julian Glover

Julian Wyatt Glover (born 27 March 1935) is an English classical actor with many stage, television, and film roles.

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Kalamazoo Gazette

The Kalamazoo Gazette is the daily newspaper in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and is part of MLive Media Group, Michigan's largest local media organization.

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Kevin Kline

Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American actor.

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Kevin McNally

Kevin Robert McNally, often credited as Kevin R. McNally, is an English actor and writer.

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Kino Lorber

Kino Lorber is an international film distribution company based in New York City.

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Leonard Maltin

Leonard Michael Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic, film historian, and author.

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Lesley Walker

Lesley Walker is a British film and television editor with more than thirty feature film credits.

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Lesotho

Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Liberalism in South Africa

Liberalism in South Africa has encompassed various traditions and parties.

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List of people subject to banning orders under apartheid

This is a selection of people subject to a "banning order" by the apartheid-era South African government.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Louis Mahoney

Louis Felix Danner Mahoney (8 September 1938 – 28 June 2020) was a Gambian-born British actor, based in Hampstead in London.

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Mamphela Ramphele

Mamphela Aletta Ramphele (born 28 December 1947) is a South African politician, anti-apartheid activist, medical doctor and businesswoman.

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Maseru

Maseru is the capital and largest city of Lesotho.

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MCA Records

MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc. established in 1972, though MCA had released recordings under that name in the UK from the 1960s.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Michael Turner (actor)

Michael Turner (19 July 1921 — 14 July 2012) was a South African-born actor who appeared in numerous British films and television series from the early 1950s.

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Miles Anderson

Miles Anderson (born 23 October 1947) is a British stage and screen actor, born in the colony of Southern Rhodesia, who has appeared in television serials both in the United Kingdom, and North America.

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Minoritarianism

In political science, minoritarianism (or minorityism) is a neologism for a political structure or process in which a minority group of a population has a certain degree of primacy in that population's decision making, with legislative power or judicial power being held or controlled by a minority group rather than a majority that is representative of the population.

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Movie Review Query Engine

The Movie Review Query Engine, also known as MRQE, is an online index of movie reviews.

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Movie theater

A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall (Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, picture theater or simply theater, is a business that contains auditoria for viewing films (also called movies, motion pictures or "flicks") for public entertainment.

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MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film was first awarded in 1987, recognizing the best videos whose songs were a part of a movie soundtrack or featured in a film.

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Music video

A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes.

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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture

This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture.

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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture

This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture, awarded by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

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NAACP Image Awards

The NAACP Image Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding performances in film, television, theatre, music, and literature.

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National Board of Review Awards 1987

59th National Board of Review Awards ---- Best Picture: Empire of the Sun The 59th National Board of Review Awards were announced on December 15, 1987, and given on 16 February, 1988.

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National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

The following is a list of the Top 10 Films chosen annually by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, beginning in 1929.

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National Review

National Review is an American conservative editorial magazine, focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs.

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Night Crossing

Night Crossing is a 1982 thriller drama film starring John Hurt, Jane Alexander and Beau Bridges. Cry Freedom and Night Crossing are 1980s British films, drama films based on actual events, films set in 1978 and films set in 1979.

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Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika

"" is a Christian hymn originally composed in 1897 by Enoch Sontonga, a Xhosa clergyman at a Methodist mission school near Johannesburg.

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Paul Jerricho

Paul Jerricho (born 18 November 1948) is a British actor.

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Penelope Wilton

Dame Penelope Alice Wilton, Lady Holm (born 3 June 1946) is an English actress.

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Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter and human rights activist.

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Phil Collins

Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor.

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Philip Bretherton

Philip Bretherton (born 30 May 1955) is an English actor.

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Political Film Society Award for Human Rights

The Political Film Society Award for human rights is given out each year to a film that deals with struggle for human rights in both fictional and non-fictional stories.

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Politics of Lesotho

Politics of Lesotho takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic constitutional monarchy, whereby the Prime Minister of Lesotho is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.

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Pretoria

Pretoria, is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa.

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Qonce

Qonce, formerly known as King William's Town, is a town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa along the banks of the Buffalo River.

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Richard Attenborough

Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, (29 August 192324 August 2014) was an English actor, film director, and producer.

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Right of asylum

The right of asylum, sometimes called right of political asylum (asylum), is an ancient juridical concept, under which people persecuted by their own rulers might be protected by another sovereign authority, such as a second country or another entity which in medieval times could offer sanctuary.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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Ronnie Taylor

Ronald “Ronnie” Charles Taylor BSC (27 October 1924 – 3 August 2018) was a British cinematographer, best known for his collaborations with directors Richard Attenborough and Dario Argento.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Salon.com

Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.

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Simon Kaye

Simon Kaye (born 22 July 1935) is a British sound engineer.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South African Police

The South African Police (SAP) was the national police force and law enforcement agency in South Africa from 1913 to 1994; it was the de facto police force in the territory of South West Africa (Namibia) from 1939 to 1981.

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Soweto uprising

The Soweto uprising, also known as the Soweto riots, was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid that began on the morning of 16 June 1976.

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Steve Biko

Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Cry Freedom and Steve Biko are Steve Biko affair.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Time Out (magazine)

Time Out is a global magazine published by Time Out Group.

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Time Out Group

Time Out Group is a British media and hospitality company.

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Timothy West

Timothy Lancaster West, CBE (born 20 October 1934) is a retired English actor and presenter.

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Township (South Africa)

In South Africa, the terms township and location usually refers to an under-developed, racially segregated urban area, from the late 19th century until the end of apartheid, were reserved for non-whites, namely Black Africans, Coloureds and Indians.

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Two Hearts (Phil Collins song)

"Two Hearts" is a song by Phil Collins from the soundtrack to the film Buster (1988) where it features in the end credits, in which Collins played the lead role.

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United International Pictures

United International Pictures (UIP) is a joint venture of Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures that distributes their films outside the United States and Canada.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United Nations laissez-passer

A United Nations laissez-passer (UNLP or LP) is a diplomatic travel document issued by the United Nations under the provisions of Article VII of the 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations in its offices in New York City and Geneva, as well as by the International Labour Organization (ILO).

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United Nations Security Council

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Universal Pictures

Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (informally as Universal Studios or also known simply as Universal) is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Universal Studios, which is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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VHS

The VHS (Video Home System) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC).

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Video on demand

Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos, television shows and films digitally on request.

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W. G. Boshoff

Wessel Groenewald Boshoff QC (15 May 1916 – 22 March 1989) was a South African judge, Judge President of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa and Judge of Appeal.

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Wendy Woods

Wendy Heather Woods (née Bruce; 5 February 1941 – 19 May 2013) was a South African educator and anti-apartheid activist.

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White savior narrative in film

The white savior is a cinematic trope in which a white central character rescues non-white (often less prominent) characters from unfortunate circumstances. Cry Freedom and white savior narrative in film are films about race and ethnicity.

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White South Africans

White South Africans are South Africans of European descent.

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Widescreen

Widescreen images are displayed within a set of aspect ratios (relationship of image width to height) used in film, television and computer screens.

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Zakes Mokae

Zakes Makgona Mokae (5 August 1934 – 11 September 2009) was a South African stage and screen actor.

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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.

See Cry Freedom and Zimbabwe

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_Freedom

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Cry Freedom, the Glossary

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