Denzel Washington (Denzel Washington) plays Steven Biko, a witty, gentle, kind and brave leader of the black civil rights movement in South Africa, who is killed in prison by a security police in 1977. Kevin Clay (Kevin Kline) plays his white journalist friend Donald Donald Woods, who risks his life and takes his family to try to flee his native South Africa. In order to tell the world the deeds of Pico, a freedom fighter. Denzel Washington was nominated for Best supporting Actor at the Academy Award for this film.