Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about the fight for human rights.

Each Friday this summer, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: comedy movies.

On August 21, South Africa’s Equality Court ruled that gratuitous displays of the Apartheid-era flag counted as hate speech and discrimination. Confronting history head on, Judge Phineas Mojapelo wrote in his ruling that the flag represents “a vivid symbol of white supremacy and black disenfranchisement and suppression,” and flying it, “besides being racist and discriminatory, demonstrates a clear intention to be hurtful.”