Cry Freedom was set in the continent Africa.
Cry Freedom is a 1987 British epic drama film directed by Richard Attenborough , set in late-1970s apartheid era South Africa . Operation Enduring Freedom -- Horn of Africa ( OEF-HOA ) is the name of the military operation defined by the United States as combating militant Islamism and piracy in the Horn of Africa . South Africa , officially the Republic of South Africa ( RSA ) , is the southernmost country in Africa .