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Terry Pheto has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s.
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A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.
Dir. Gavin Hood · With Presley Chweneyagae, Jerry Mofokeng, Terry Pheto

The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
Dir. Bille August · With Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger

A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
Dir. Justin Chadwick · With Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.
Dir. Phillip Noyce · With Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Mbuli

The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
Dir. Amma Asante · With David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton