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A U.K. television story of one woman's fight for freedom from modern-day slavery, based on the experience of Mende Nazer, a British author, human rights activist, and a former slave in Sudan. Ill Gotten Gains. 1997. Independent film about the Atlantic slave trade. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
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.
List of colonialism-related films. The following is an alphabetical list of films and series that feature or relate to colonialism. Film. Year. Description. Adwa. 1999. In 1896, Ethiopia defeats an Italian army bent on conquest and colonization at the Battle of Adwa. African's Black Star: The Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah.
English. Sankofa (Amharic: ሳንኮፋ) is a 1993 Ethiopian -produced drama film directed by Haile Gerima centered on the Atlantic slave trade. The storyline features Oyafunmike Ogunlano, Kofi Ghanaba, Mutabaruka, Alexandra Duah, and Afemo Omilami. The word Sankofa derives its meaning from the Ghanaian Akan language which means to "go back ...
Ashanti. (1979 film) Camel riders near Eilat, extras on the set of "Ashanti". Ashanti (also called Ashanti, Land of No Mercy) is a 1979 action adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Kabir Bedi, Beverly Johnson, Omar Sharif, Rex Harrison, and William Holden. It is based on the 1974 novel Ébano by ...
e. The West Africa Squadron, also known as the Preventative Squadron, [1] was a squadron of the British Royal Navy whose goal was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa. [2] Formed in 1808 after the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act 1807 and based out of Portsmouth, England, [3] it remained an ...
Forced labour and slavery. White slavery (also white slave trade or white slave trafficking) refers to the enslavement of any of the world's European ethnic groups throughout human history, whether perpetrated by non-Europeans or by other Europeans. Slavery in ancient Rome was frequently dependent on a person's socio-economic status and ...
February 11, 2015. (2015-02-11) The Book of Negroes is a 2015 Canadian historical drama television miniseries directed by Clement Virgo, adapted by Virgo and Lawrence Hill from the latter’s 2007 novel of the same name. It stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Lyriq Bent, Cuba Gooding Jr., Louis Gossett Jr., Ben Chaplin, Allan Hawco, Greg Bryk, and ...