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Two thumbs up for Invictus, the movie about Nelson Mandela Here are a few more sources of information about it.

1. Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood did an interview on NPR about the movie.

2. This is the full-text of “Invictus,” the poem by William Ernest Henley. (“Invictus” is Latin for invincible.) The part that Nelson Mandela recites is:

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul.

In the movie, Nelson Mandela gives the captain of the Springbok team a copy of this poem. However, according to Wikipedia, Nelson Mandela actually gave him part of Theodore Roosevelt’s 1910 speech called “The Man in the Arena.” Perhaps this is the part he gave him:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

3. This is information about Robben Island, the prison where Nelson Mandela spent much of his twenty-seven years of sentence. You can see it on a map.

4. This is a video of a real All-Blacks haka.

5. This is a synopis of the 1995 World Cup. Apparently the part about the South African Airways plane flying over the field is true.

6. This is an interview of Francois Piennaar, the captain of the Sprinkbok team. Matt Damon played him in the movie.

7. Here’s more about Jonah Lomu, #11 on the All Blacks team. I don’t know a thing about rugby he seem like he’s kind of the Mark Messier of rugby.

8. If you’re a rugby fan, you’ll love Rugby.alltop.