Editing Invictus (section)

=== Film ===
* In ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' (1942), Captain Renault (played by [[Claude Rains]]) recites the last two lines of the poem when talking to Rick Blaine (played by [[Humphrey Bogart]]), referring to his power in [[Casablanca]]. While delivering the last line, he is called away by an aide to [[Gestapo]] officer Major Strasser.<ref>{{YouTube|id=IBJGHvt7I3c|title=Casablanca Movieclips excerpt}}</ref>
* In ''[[Kings Row]]'' (1942), psychiatrist Parris Mitchell (played by [[Robert Cummings]]) recites the first two stanzas of "Invictus" to his friend Drake McHugh (played by [[Ronald Reagan]]) before revealing to Drake that his legs were unnecessarily amputated by a cruel doctor.
* In ''[[Sunrise at Campobello]]'' (1960), the character Louis Howe (played by [[Hume Cronyn]]) reads the poem to Franklin D. Roosevelt (played by [[Ralph Bellamy]]). The recitation is at first light-hearted and partially in jest, but as it continues both men appear to realize the significance of the poem to Roosevelt's fight against his paralytic illness.
* [[Nelson Mandela]] is depicted in ''[[Invictus (film)|Invictus]]'' (2009) presenting a copy of the poem to [[Francois Pienaar]], captain of the national [[Springboks|South African]] rugby team, for inspiration during the [[Rugby World Cup]]—though at the actual event he gave Pienaar a text of "[[The Man in the Arena]]" passage from [[Theodore Roosevelt]]'s ''[[Citizenship in a Republic]]'' speech delivered in France in 1910.<ref>{{cite web|author=Dominic Sandbrook|date=30 January 2010|title=British leaders: they're not what they were|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/gordon-brown/7104500/British-leaders-theyre-not-what-they-were.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201052521/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/gordon-brown/7104500/British-leaders-theyre-not-what-they-were.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 February 2010|publisher=The Daily Telegraph (UK)}}</ref>
* The last two lines "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul" are shown in a picture during the 25th minute of the film [[The Big Short (film)|''The Big Short'']] (2015)''.''
* ''[[Star Trek: Renegades]]'' (2015) opens with Lexxa Singh reciting the poem and writing it on the wall of her prison cell.