 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna 1980, aive nebasa duku saWalter mumutambo unonzi Brubaker, uyo wakaratidzwa naRobert Redford semurindi wejeri. Freeman akatevera kuoneka mufirimu yeterevhizheni, Attica 1980, iyo iri pamusoro pemhirizhonga yeAttica Prison ya1971nemigumisiro yacho. Gore rakatevera, akaita nyeredzi muEyewitness yaPeter Yates pamwe chete naWilliam Hurt naSigourney Weaver. Kubva muna 1982 kusvika muna 1984, Freeman aive nhengo yevashandi ve Another World, achitamba muvaki Roy Bingham. Pashure pemabasa mashomanana mumitambo, akabatwa mu Marie 1985, firimu rakagadziriswa re Marie: A True Story naPeter Maas, umo akafananidzira Charles Traughber, uye akaonekwawo mumutambo we The Atlanta Child Murders. Freeman aivawo nebasa duku mumutambo unonzi That Was Then... This Is Now, rakavakirwa parinovhero rine zita rimwe chetero rakanyorwa naS. E. Hinton. Pakati pemakore ekuma1980, akatanga kugamuchira mabasa makuru ekutsigira mumafirimu, achimupa mukurumbira wekuratidzira vanhu vakachenjera, vane baba. 