Free Nelson Mandela review – this gripping documentary pulls no punches

A revelatory look at the sprawling tale of the decades-long struggle against apartheid. It’s a nuanced tale that brutally emphasises the personal cost of Mandela’s resistance Nelson Mandela died in December 2013 but he had long before been canonised as a secular saint. Many people – particularly on the political right – found it convenient to forget that for decades they had regarded him as a terrorist. He had become the world’s grandad: an icon of spiritual generosity and reconciliation. This three-part series directed by James Rogan ends in 1994, when Mandela became president of South Africa

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