Remarkably compelling with an amazing amount of information and visual/political landscape imparted in such a short amount of time. Intimate details of life inside prison for Mandela and his peers as well as life outside for family of the detained and all the South Africans fed up with the yoke of Afrikaans. Exquisite editorial choices made with a mix of archival and current tape.

Testimony to that is the fact that in spite of the narrator-less collage of voices which can often promise a certain amount of chaos, the content was so interesting and well placed that I didn't need to know who the voices were beyond a chorus of political prisoners.

Outside this anniversary - whenever and wherever the struggle for freedom is celebrated or acknowledged - this is a story to be aired, again and again. I'm chanting for a solid hour version.