Play it again, Nelson

In the mid-1990s, during the ugly wake of apartheid, South Africa’s newly elected president Nelson Mandela set about uniting his racially torn country through the people’s common love of sports by campaigning to host the Rugby World Cup Championship and rallying the home team to his cause. Morgan Freeman embodies Mandela in director Clint Eastwood’s Invictus, a loving adaptation of John Carlin’s book about the era, Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation. Matt Damon stars opposite Freeman as South African rugby hero Francois Pienaar. Rated PG-13. (Image courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures)