Invictus

After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.

What tensions are evident in the inner ranks of Mandela’s staff? Why is it important for Mandela to have a mixture of Black and White individuals working with him?

How does the mantra, “One Team One Country,” serve to help unite the South Africans? What inspires the Black population to support the Springboks?

Invictus is the title of a poem written by Englishman William Ernest Henley. How do the words of this verse inspire Mandela during his time in prison? How does he use the poem to inspire the team? What does Mandela mean when he says that to succeed they must exceed their own expectations?