The First Grader (2010)
The story of an 84-year-old Kenyan man's fight for education and equality.
Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom (2013)
Biopic of political prisoner who went on to be the first democratically elected South African president
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
A dramatisation of the Boleyn sisters' competition for the affections of King Henry VIII.
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