Now is a good time to reflect on how movies about emancipation and Slavery have been used to tell different parts of the story of America. From Birth of a Nation to The Help, movies have often been vehicles for examining race and prejudice in America.
But they also provide a window into what life was like for freed people and their descendants. Here are 10 movies about emancipation.
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Movies About Emancipation
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn (Actors)
- Steven Spielberg (Director) - Tony Kushner (Writer) - Steven Spielberg (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
Lincoln
Daniel Day Lewis is spectacular in an Oscar(R)-winning performance as Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s film about the 16th President.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon (Actors)
- John Cromwell (Director) - Robert E. Sherwood (Writer) - Max Gordon (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Mark Boone Jr. (Actors)
- Nate Parker (Director) - Nate Parker (Writer) - Jason Michael Berman (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
The Birth of a Nation
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- John Wayne, William Holden, Hoot Gibson (Actors)
- John Ford (Director) - John Lee Mahin (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
The Horse Soldiers
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- LeVar Burton, Cicely Tyson, Edward Asner (Actors)
- Marvin J. Chomsky (Director) - William Blinn (Writer) - Not Specified (Producer)
Roots
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Dick Cavett (Actors)
- Raoul Peck (Director) - James Baldwin (Writer) - Raoul Peck (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
I Am Not Your Negro

- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Albert Finney (Actors)
- Michael Apted (Director) - Steven Knight (Writer) - Patricia Heaton (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
Amazing Grace
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Orson Welles, Cicely Tyson, John Getz (Actors)
- Paul Wendkos (Director) - Lonne Elder III (Writer) - Henry Jaffe (Producer)
A Woman Called Moses
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Carlos Diegues (Director) - Carlos Diegues (Writer) - Carlos Diegues (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
Quilombo
Slaves
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Avery Brooks, Rhetta Greene, Art Evans (Actors)
- Gordon Parks (Director) - Lou Potter (Writer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
Solomon Northup’s Odyssey
Solomon Northup was a black man in the mid-19th century who was born a freeman and worked as a carpenter and part-time musician. Approached to play for a group of men, he is kidnapped and sold into slavery.
Based on the autobiography 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup and the first filmed version of his story.
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