Released 1993
Stars Danny Glover, Malcolm McDowell, Alfre Woodard, Maynard Eziashi, Malick Bowens
Directed by Morgan Freeman

Mangena (Danny Glover) is a proud South African police sergeant, the second generation in the job, and he wants his son to follow him onto the force. It's 1980, and he works in a drowsy rural area where relationships between whites and blacks, and police and civilians, seem fairly good - at least from the official point of view. Mangena has a good working relationship with his white captain, who is not a bad man. Then there is trouble. "Bopha!" was shot on location in Zimbabwe, and captures the beauty as well as the unhappiness of southern Africa. One of its greatest values is that it's told primarily through black eyes.

Summary by Roger Ebert