The Long Walk

PBS - FRONTLINE: The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela (2011)
PDTV | 720x406 | .MP4/AVC @ 1062 Kbps | 1h 50mn | Audio: English AAC 107 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 926 MiB
Genre: Documentary

FRONTLINE presents the story of the man behind the myth, probing Mandela's character, leadership and life's method through intimate recollections with friends, political allies, adversaries, and his fellow prisoners and jailers on Robben Island, where Mandela spent 18 of his 27 prison years, transforming himself in prison from an impetuous, risk-taking radical into a mature leader and statesman. Together with the many interviews, unique photos, and rare archival film, the program also interweaves analyses from Mandela's biographers, Richard Stengel and Anthony Sampson, illuminating not only what separates Mandela from ordinary men–his singular pursuit of his life's mission, his unwavering moral certitude, his own sense of his destiny–but also, what makes him like the rest of us: his vanity, his anger, his stubbornness.

Nelson Mandela is a South African lawyer who joins the African National Congress in the 1940s when the law under the Apartheid system's brutal tyranny proves useless for his people. Forced to abandon peaceful protest for armed resistance after the Sharpeville Massacre, Mandela pays the price when he and his comrades are sentenced to life imprisonment for treason while his wife, Winnie, is abused by the authorities herself.