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![12 Years a Slave](/imagesen/small/15180.jpg)
, 2h13
Directed by Steve McQueenOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
HistoricalThemes Films about slavery,
Films about racism,
Children's filmsActors Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Michael Fassbender,
Brad Pitt,
Paul Dano,
Benedict Cumberbatch,
Paul GiamattiRating80%
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In 1841, Solomon Northup is a free African-American man working as a violinist, who lives with his wife, Anne Hampton, and two children, Margaret and Alonzo, in Saratoga Springs, New York. Two men, Brown and Hamilton, offer him a two-week job as a musician if he will travel to Washington, D.C., with them. Once there, they drug Northup and deliver him to a slave pen owned by James Burch.
Directed by Gary RossOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
Biography,
Action,
HistoricalThemes Films about slavery,
Films about racism,
Political filmsActors Matthew McConaughey,
Gugu Mbatha-Raw,
Keri Russell,
Mahershala Ali,
Brendan Gleeson,
Sean BridgersRating68%
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After surviving the 1863 Battle of Corinth during the Civil War, Newton Knight, a poor farmer from Mississippi, leads a group of anti-slavery Confederate deserters in Jones County and turns them against the Confederacy. Knight subsequently marries former slave, Rachel, effectively establishing the region's first mixed-race community, even though Native Americans and Europeans (such as the Mississippi Choctaws) have been doing it long before in their ancient homeland.![Roots (TV miniseries)](/imagesen/small/158781.jpg)
, 9h30
Directed by Gilbert Moses,
Marvin J. Chomsky,
John Erman,
David Greene,
David GreenOrigin USAGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about slavery,
Films about racismActors John Amos,
Ben Vereen,
LeVar Burton,
Louis Gossett Jr.,
Georg Stanford Brown,
Leslie UggamsRating83%
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In The Gambia, West Africa, in 1750 Kunta Kinte is born to Omoro Kinte (Thalmus Rasulala), a Mandinka warrior, and his wife, Binta (Cicely Tyson). When Kunta (LeVar Burton) reaches the age of 15, he and a group of other adolescent boys take part in tribal manhood training, ending with a ceremony, after which they become recognized as men and Mandinka warriors. While trying to carry out a task to catch a bird and take it home unharmed, Kunta sees white men carrying firearms, along with their black collaborators. Later, while fetching wood outside his village to make a drum for his younger brother, Kunta is captured by black collaborators under the direction of white men. He is then sold to a slave trader and placed aboard a ship under the command of Capt. Thomas Davies (Edward Asner) for a three-month journey to Colonial America. During the voyage a group of rebels among the human cargo try but fail to stage a mutiny and to take over the ship.![Glory](/imagesen/small/8281.jpg)
, 2h2
Directed by Edward ZwickOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Historical,
WesternThemes Films about slavery,
Films about racism,
Political films,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors Matthew Broderick,
Denzel Washington,
Cary Elwes,
Morgan Freeman,
Andre Braugher,
Cliff De YoungRating77%
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During the American Civil War, Captain Robert Shaw is injured in the Battle of Antietam and sent home to Boston on medical leave. He visits his family there, where he meets the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a former slave. Shaw is offered a promotion to the rank of Colonel to command the first all-black regiment in the Union Army, the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He accepts and asks his childhood friend, 2nd Lieutenant Cabot Forbes, to serve as his second in command, with the rank of major. Their first volunteer is another friend, Thomas Searles, a bookish free African American. Other recruits soon follow, including gravedigger John Rawlins, timid freeman Jupiter Sharts and Silas Trip, an escaped slave who does not trust Shaw. Trip instantly clashes with Searles and Rawlins must keep the peace.![Goodbye Uncle Tom](/imagesen/small/97299.jpg)
, 2h20
Directed by Francesco Prosperi,
Gualtiero Jacopetti,
Franco E. ProsperiOrigin ItalieGenres Drama,
Documentary,
Horror,
Historical,
CrimeThemes Films about slavery,
Films about racism,
Documentary films about racism,
Documentary films about law,
Documentary films about historical events,
Documentaire sur une personnalitéActors Gualtiero Jacopetti,
Susan Hampshire,
Franco E. Prosperi,
Geoffrey CoplestonRating65%
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Le film a été tourné quelques années après Africa addio, à l'origine de polémiques idéologiques, dues à la description des difficultés en tous genres du continent africain après la fin du colonialisme européen. ![Mandingo](/imagesen/small/99898.jpg)
, 2h7
Directed by Richard FleischerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Adventure,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about slavery,
Films about racism,
Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Boxing films,
Films based on playsActors James Mason,
Susan George,
Perry King,
Paul Benedict,
Lillian Irene Hayman,
Richard WardRating64%
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The movie is set in the Deep South of the United States prior to the American Civil War. Falconhurst is a run-down plantation owned by widower Warren Maxwell (James Mason) and largely run by his son, Hammond (Perry King). Hammond and a friend go to a brothel where both men choose to have sex with virgin black women. Hammond chooses Ellen (Brenda Sykes). Hammond and Ellen watch as Hammond's friend abuses and rapes his choice, claiming that she likes it. Hammond asks Ellen if this is true, and she says no. Hammond then gently has sexual intercourse with Ellen.![Solomon Northup's Odyssey](/imagesen/small/150485.jpg)
, 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 EvansRating3%
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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.![Lincoln](/imagesen/small/14618.jpg)
, 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%
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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.![Amistad](/imagesen/small/9376.jpg)
, 2h28
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%
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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.![Beloved](/imagesen/small/113930.jpg)
, 2h52
Directed by Jonathan DemmeOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Horror,
HistoricalThemes Films about slavery,
Films about racism,
Films about religion,
Films about sexuality,
Rape in fictionActors Oprah Winfrey,
Danny Glover,
Thandie Newton,
Kimberly Elise,
Beah Richards,
Lisa Gay HamiltonRating59%
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Sethe is a former slave living on the outskirts of Cincinnati shortly after the Civil War. An angry poltergeist terrorizes Sethe and her three children, causing her two sons to run away forever. Eight years later, Sethe (Oprah Winfrey) lives alone with her daughter, Denver (Kimberly Elise). Paul D. (Danny Glover), an old friend from Sweet Home, the plantation Sethe had escaped from years earlier, finds Sethe's home, where he drives off the angry spirit. Afterwards, Paul D. proposes that he should stay and Sethe responds favorably. Shortly after Paul D. moves in, a clean, mentally handicapped young woman (Thandie Newton) named Beloved stumbles into Sethe's yard and also stays with them.