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2006. Amazing Grace is a biographical movie about the Abolitionist William Wilberforce 's campaign against the slave trade in the British Empire, and features the role of John Newton, the writer of the hymn Amazing Grace, in Wilberforce's campaign. Amistad. 1997.
Budget. $8.5 million [ 2] Box office. $16.8 million [ 2] The Birth of a Nation is a 2016 historical drama film written and directed by Nate Parker in his directorial debut. It is based on the story of Nat Turner, the enslaved man who led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.
Film adaptations of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Band of Angels. List of films featuring slavery. Free State of Jones (film) Freedom (2014 film) Freedom's Path.
Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the events in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by the Washington, a U.S. revenue cutter.
Not My Life is a documentary film about human trafficking and contemporary slavery.It addresses many forms of slavery, [1] including the military use of children in Uganda, involuntary servitude in the United States, unfree labor in Ghana, forced begging and garbage picking in India, sex trafficking in Europe and Southeast Asia, and other kinds of child abuse.
February 11, 2015. ( 2015-02-11) The Book of Negroes is a 2015 television miniseries based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Canadian writer Lawrence Hill. The book was inspired by the British freeing and evacuation of former slaves, known as Black Loyalists, who had left rebel masters during the American Revolutionary War.
6. Tubi TV. Just as Sony owns Crackle, Fox Entertainment owns Tubi TV, which means you’ll find tons of hit movies and TV shows on the free station, including “The Angry Birds Movie ...
December 10, 1984. ( 1984-12-10) Solomon Northup's Odyssey, reissued as Half Slave, Half Free, is a 1984 American television film based on the 1853 autobiography Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a free black man who in 1841 was kidnapped and sold into slavery. [ 1] The film, which aired on PBS, was directed by Gordon Parks with Avery ...