- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- LeVar Burton, Cicely Tyson, Edward Asner (Actors)
Roots
In this remake of the 1970s miniseries based on Alex Haley’s novel, a new generation of actors retraces the roots of American slavery through the saga of Kunta Kinte — a young man taken from a Gambian village and brought to America to serve.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Halle Berry, Ann-Margret, Tim Daly (Actors)
Alex Haley’s Queen
It tells the life story of a young woman and it shows the problems which biracial slaves and former slaves faced in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender (Actors)
12 Years a Slave
A freeborn black man is abducted from New York and sold into slavery in this historical drama based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio (Actors)
Django Unchained
Accompanied by a German bounty hunter, a freed slave named Django travels across America to free his wife from a sadistic plantation owner.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn (Actors)
Lincoln
Director Steven Spielberg takes on the towering legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his stewardship of the Union during the Civil War years.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali (Actors)
Free State of Jonas
In this fact-based drama, a rebellious farmer leads a group of Civil War deserters in a fight to establish a mixed-race free state in the deep South.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Reid (Actors)
Belle
This period drama based on fact traces the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle, a biracial girl born in 1761 to a British admiral father and an African mother.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Mark Boone Jr. (Actors)
The Birth of a Nation
Set against the antebellum South, the movie follows Nat Turner, a literate slave, and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins (Actors)
Amistad
Steven Spielberg directed this story about the 1839 revolt aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad and the uprising’s tragic aftermath.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Wunmi Mosaku, Isaach De Bankolé, Lubna Azabal (Actors)
I Am Slave
A thriller set in London’s slave trade and centered on a woman’s fight for freedom.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- David Hasselhoff, Karen Allen, Omar Sharif (Actors)
Shaka Zulu
This true story (originally aired as a TV show) of 19th-century Africa follows mighty Zulu Shaka as he leads his proud warriors on a quest to be one people, one power, one empire!
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