Slavery Movies

A fascinating account of the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who was both one of America's great presidents and a borderline tyrant. The seventh...

The Albatross travels from England to the New World in 1675, with a number of passengers, a couple of political prisoners along with a dozen other...

In 1853, 28 slaves escaped from Boone County, Kentucky. Unwilling to accept their departure, wealthy plantation owners set out to locate the 28,...

Love blossoms between Maroc, a singing boat refugee, and Lisa, a collector of singing seashells who dreams about love.

The Myth of the Black Woman is a feature-length documentary that examines the imagery of black women in the media, from the 18th century black slave...

The first screen adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel to star a black man in the title role.

On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.

The true story of Eudocia Tomas Pullido, an enslaved woman who served Pulitzer Prize-winning Filipino-American writer Alex Tizon's family ceaselessly...

Florida, 1830 - Of all eastern Native American tribes, only the Seminoles have resisted being moved to reservations. Having retreated to Florida,...

The film expresses the history of oppression, discrimination, violence and hate in America. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best...

A Black man attends a white friend's Southern plantation wedding, and becomes haunted by its history.

A powerful documentary starring Morgan Freeman about the genesis of The Blues in the South and the music spreading around the world. Morgan Freeman...

This Italian film version of Verdi's opera stars Sophia Loren on the screen, with Renata Tebaldi providing the vocals.

A son sets out to look for the man responsible for his father's disappearance, which is connected to a stolen diamond. Eventually, he steals the...

In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave owners and their families, the eventual...

An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he...

In 1885, Africa is a succulent cake destined to be wildly divided and everyone wants a piece. A disturbed European king, a Pygmy working in a luxury...

A documentary following the life of Olaudah Equiano, based on his autobiography "The Interesting Narration of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or...

A young slave whishes returning to his homeland, the Canary Islands, after twenty years of captivity in Spain. For that reason he will travel as...