Born in the Transvaal in 1931, Archbishop Desmond Tutu died nearly five years ago, in the last week of 2021, but this documentary arrives as a timely reminder of his legacy and the great strides he made throughout his career. Though primarily identified with the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, which he supported from the mid-’60s till the end finally came in the mid-90s, the charismatic Anglican lent his name to many other humanitarian causes, not simply matters of black versus white. This suitably reverential doc shows the tip of that iceberg, offering a striking portrait of a leader with a strong moral compass and a fearlessness that now seems almost superhuman.
Organized into chapters, Tutu makes great use of first-hand footage filmed by journalist Roger Friedman and activist/photographer Benny Gool, who both worked with Tutu for the last 20 years of his life. Much of it filmed behind
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