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Directed by Steven SpielbergOrigin USAGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about slavery,
Seafaring films,
Films about racism,
Transport films,
Political filmsActors Morgan Freeman,
Anthony Hopkins,
Djimon Hounsou,
Matthew McConaughey,
Nigel Hawthorne,
Stellan SkarsgårdRating72%
Amistad is the name of a slave ship traveling from Cuba to the U.S. in 1839. It is carrying a cargo of Africans captured in Sierra Leone who have been sold into slavery in Cuba, taken on board, and chained in the cargo hold of the ship. As the ship is crossing from Cuba to the U.S., Cinqué, a leader of the Africans, leads a mutiny and takes over the ship. The mutineers spare the lives of two Spanish navigators to help them sail the ship back to Africa. Instead, the navigators deceive the Africans and sail north to the east coast of the United States, where the ship is stopped by the American navy and the 44 living Africans imprisoned as runaway slaves. In an unfamiliar country and not speaking a word of English, it seems like they are doomed to die for killing their captors. A lawyer named Baldwin, hired by the abolitionist Tappan and his black associate Joadson (a fictional character) decides to take their case, arguing that the Africans had been captured in Africa to be sold in the Americas illegally, and therefore were free citizens of another country and not slaves at all. With help from James Covey, who speaks both Mende and English, Baldwin is able to start communicating with Cinque. The judge rules in favor of the Africans, but the case is eventually appealed to the Supreme Court. At this point, former U.S. President John Quincy Adams makes an impassioned and eloquent plea for their release, and is successful., 2h35
Directed by Ridley ScottOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Adventure,
PeplumThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about slavery,
Films about families,
Films about sexuality,
Sports filmsActors Russell Crowe,
Joaquin Phoenix,
Connie Nielsen,
Oliver Reed,
Richard Harris,
Derek JacobiRating82%
In AD 180, Spanish-Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius leads the Roman army to a decisive victory against the Germanic tribes near Vindobona, ending a long war on the Roman frontier and winning the favor of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Maximus, weary of battle, decides to retire at his Spanish farm estate at the Emperor's behest, but the Emperor tells him that his son and heir to the throne, Commodus, is unfit to rule and thus appoints him as regent to help save Rome from corruption. Before he makes his decision, Commodus is confronted by his father who tells him that he will not be emperor. Burdened by grief and believing he was never valued by his father, Commodus kills him., 2h30
Directed by Steven SpielbergOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Biography,
HistoricalThemes Films about slavery,
Politique,
Films about racism,
Political films,
Children's films,
White House in fictionActors Daniel Day-Lewis,
Sally Field,
David Strathairn,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
James Spader,
Tim Blake NelsonRating72%
In January 1865, President Abraham Lincoln expects the Civil War to end within a month. However, he is concerned that his 1863 Emancipation Proclamation may be discarded by the courts once the war has concluded and that the Thirteenth Amendment be defeated by the returning slave states. Lincoln feels it is imperative to pass the amendment by the end of the month, thus removing any possibility that slaves who have already been freed may be re-enslaved. The Radical Republicans fear the amendment will be defeated by some who merely wish to delay its passage; the support of the amendment by Republicans in the border states is not yet assured either, since they prioritize the issue of ending the war. Even if all of them are ultimately brought on board, the amendment will still require the support of several Democratic congressmen if it is to pass. With dozens of Democrats having just become lame ducks after losing their re-election campaigns in the fall of 1864, some of Lincoln's advisors believe that he should wait until the new Republican-heavy Congress is seated, presumably giving the amendment an easier road to passage. Lincoln, however, remains adamant about having the amendment in place and the issue of slavery settled before the war is concluded and the southern states readmitted into the Union., 1h38
Directed by Marc Maurette,
John BerryOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Films about slavery,
Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Dorothy Dandridge,
Curd Jürgens,
Jean Servais,
Roger Hanin,
Guy Mairesse,
Doudou BabetRating63%
Captain Reiker (Curd Jürgens), a Dutch sea captain, sets off on what he intends to be his last slave-ship voyage. After capturing slaves with the complicity of an African chief (Habib Benglia), he then starts his voyage for Cuba. Along with the slaves below-deck, the passengers include his mistress, the slave Aiché (Dorothy Dandridge), and the ship's doctor, Doctor Corot (Jean Servais). Tamango (Alex Cressan), one of the captured men, plans a revolt and tries to persuade Aiché to join him and the other slaves. When the captured slaves do rebel, Tamango manages to hold Aiché hostage. A deadlock between the two sides then develops and Captain Renker states he will fire a cannon into the ships' hold and kill all the slaves unless they give up. Aiché is given a chance to leave by Tamango but after looking up the ladder that leads out of the hold (and towards life), chooses to stay with her fellow slaves. The captain makes good on his threat and shoots the cannon into the hold, literally silencing the slaves' songs., 1h40
Directed by Kevin HooksOrigin USAGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Films about slavery,
Christmas films,
Films about racismActors LeVar Burton,
Louis Gossett Jr.,
Jerry Hardin,
Kate Mulgrew,
Shaun Cassidy,
Avery BrooksRating66%
In December 1775, Cletus Moyer (Brooks) is a free black Northerner in colonial America, working with a pre-Underground Railroad network to help slaves escape captivity. In the days just prior to Christmas, a group of bounty hunters led by Hattie Carraway (Mulgrew) captures Moyer near the Parker plantation in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Because of his capture, dozens of slaves who have already left their plantations in escape attempts are in danger of being captured as well. Moyer implores two slaves from the nearby Reynolds plantation to take his place: Kunta Kinte (Burton), a Mandinka in his mid-twenties who was captured in what is now the Gambia, and Fiddler (Gossett), an elderly man who was born into slavery. Kunta is eager to help (and to escape himself), but Fiddler is unwilling, fearful of the consequences if they are caught., 1h58
Directed by Gordon ParksOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
Comedy,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about slavery,
Films about racismActors Avery Brooks,
Kent Broadhurst,
Joe Seneca,
Mason Adams,
Michael Tolan,
Art EvansRating70%
Solomon Northup's Odyssey is based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man in Saratoga, New York who was kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery (see slavery in the United States). Northup was intelligent, skilled in carpentry, and was able to play music. He was enslaved in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before he was released., 1h54
Directed by Peter MullanOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Horror,
HistoricalThemes Films about slavery,
Films about religionActors Anne-Marie Duff,
Nora-Jane Noone,
Geraldine McEwan,
Eileen Walsh,
Peter Mullan,
Frances HealyRating76%
Set in Ireland, beginning in 1964, so-called 'fallen' women were considered sinners who needed to be redeemed. The film follows the stories of four young women - Margaret (raped by her cousin), Bernadette (too beautiful and coquettish), Rose (an unmarried mother) and Crispina (an intellectually disabled unmarried mother) - who are all forced by their families or caretakers into the Magdalene Asylum., 1h48
Origin RoumanieGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Films about slaveryActors Teodor Corban,
Luminița Gheorghiu,
Victor RebengiucRating75%
En Valachie au début du dix-neuvième siècle, Costandin, un policier local, est embauché par le boyard Iordache, pour retrouver Carfin, son esclave tzigane qui a fui après avoir eu une liaison avec sa femme, Sultana.