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An American film that depicts African Americans in a negative light and glorified the Ku Klux Klan. The Birth of a Nation: 2016: Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites. The Book of Negroes: 2015
Pages in category "Films about American slavery" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
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Films about American slavery (2 C, 55 P) Pages in category "African-American films" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 452 total.
In 2013, five African-American films were released (12 Years a Slave, Fruitvale Station, Lee Daniels' The Butler, Best Man Holiday and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom). [citation needed] The release of such films had a broader impact on the film industry with movie attendance by African Americans growing by thirteen percent compared to 2012. [12]
The Disney Company has stated that, like Harris's book, the film takes place after the American Civil War and that all the African American characters in the movie are no longer slaves. [8] The Hays Office had asked Disney to "be certain that the frontispiece of the book mentioned establishes the date in the 1870s"; however, the final film ...
List of films featuring slavery; Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property, a 2003 documentary film by Charles Burnett; Quilombo, a 1984 Brazilian drama film about Palmares, a fugitive community of escaped slaves; Tula: The Revolt, a 2013 historical drama film about escaped slave Tula and the Curaçao Slave Revolt of 1795; List of black films of the 2010s
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