After a slum neighborhood in South Africa is demolished, journalist Donald Woods interviews Steve Biko, a black South African activist, about the incident.   Biko shows Woods the impoverished conditions blacks endure under the Apartheid government. As Woods begins to understand Biko’s anger, a friendship develops. While Woods investigates, Biko is arrested after speaking to a group of black residents outside the restricted region. Woods meets with South African Minister of Justice Jimmy Kruger asking him to intercede with police violations against Biko. After Biko is released from prison, he attends a student-run meeting in Cape Town. Again, he is arrested. This time, the treatment by police causes Biko’s death. Woods and his family travel to London where he reports  the complicity of the police in Biko’s death and the corrupt and racist nature of the South African government.

Cry Freedom is a fantastic story how two men, one black the other white, could put their lives on the line for each other  in a government that brutally enforces Apartheid.