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- DirectorMike IbejiSam MillerStarsLiz McIvorSascha AuerbachStephen DaviesA look at how the railroad ended slavery in the United States, whilst the British Empire used them to oppress and enslave people under their rule in India and Africa.
- DirectorGina Prince-BythewoodStarsViola DavisThuso MbeduLashana LynchA historical epic inspired by true events that took place in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- DirectorVeronica RobledoStarsKristen RentonWilliam Mark McCulloughKateLynn E. NewberrySouthern attorney Angie Lawrence searches of the rightful owner of a journal recovered from an antebellum home she inherited. The journal is full of mystery and history that just may lead her to the future she has always dreamed of.
- DirectorMairzee AlmasStarsTom SturridgeKirbyJenna ColemanFeeling a bit rudderless, Morpheus shadows his hard-working big sister, who offers him advice and encourages him to reconnect with an old acquaintance.
- DirectorSteven Hilliard SternStarsChristopher ReeveRaoul Max TrujilloTony ToddA former slave affects peace between Native American tribes and homesteaders in 1860s around western Texas.
- DirectorMichael BicksAnna Lee StrachanStarsJames SullivanKimberly JenkinsRabbit GoodyThe history of jeans, from their roots in slavery to the Wild West, hippies, high fashion and hip-hop.
- DirectorStan LathanStarsShavar RossCCH PounderThalmus RasulalaSet in the 1860's South, Booker is the impassioned story of the boy who struggled through slavery to found the Tuskegee Institute. Through the eyes of nine-year-old Booker T. Washington, viewers witness the end of the Civil War, the cruelties that endured after slavery was abolished, and the hard work that led Booker to education and true freedom. Booker is a one-hour drama based on the childhood of Booker T. Washington and his quest for education in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. Booker was shown nationally on PBS by the series, WONDERWORKS and subsequently on the Disney Channel, the BBC, and throughout the world. Booker continues to be broadcast and used in thousands of schools in America and abroad. The film was chosen as among the top 10 best home video release for children by Parenting Magazine and best script for a children's drama by the Writer's Guild of America.
- DirectorFielder CookStarsTracy PollanAkosua BusiaJosef SommerDuring the American Civil War, a wealthy white woman and the black woman who was once her slave, join forces to fight for freedom and the abolition of slavery.
- DirectorSidney PoitierJoseph SargentStarsSidney PoitierHarry BelafonteRuby DeeA wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
- DirectorSeth MacFarlaneStarsSeth MacFarlaneAdrianne PalickiPenny Johnson JeraldThe Orville discovers a Kaylon with a very special ability.
- DirectorSamuel DonovanStarsGemma ChanTom Goodman-HillPixie DaviesLaura Hawkins begins to suspect there's something unusual about their family 'Synth' Anita.
- DirectorAkosua BusiaStarsJohn AmosMichael BearPaul BenjaminA drama focused on Nat Turner and the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia.
- DirectorFred BarzykStarsRichard DysartMorgan FreemanTex HillThis is the story of Charlie Smith, a 134-year-old black man, who tells his life story, via flashbacks, to an orderly at his nursing home. The story moves from his childhood days when he was bought as a slave by a Texas farmer, Charlie Smith. Charlie treats the boy as a member of his family. When slaves are free, he decides to stay with Charlie until he dies. After Charlie's death, he assumes his name, as Charlie asked him to do. The story becomes picaresque, as Charlie moves throughout the Old West, being a ranch hand, gambler, train robber, bounty hunter, family man, honky-tonk owner, and, finally, circus sideshow attraction. Through his life the viewer sees the changes in the history of the Old West, including attitudes towards blacks and racism. After the dramatized account is finished, video footage of the real Charles Smith's 134th birthday party, filmed at his nursing home, is shown. The credits say that "his life has been the inspiration for this television fantasy."
- DirectorCeleste BellPaul SngStarsCeleste BellPoly StyreneX-Ray SpexThe death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate documentary.
- DirectorRichard RichStarsVirginia WatsonWilliam Dennis HuntBilly MayoHarriet Tubman has never known what it means to be free. Having been born and raised into slavery, she works hard and does as she is told. However, she longs to be free and hopes to escape to the "promise land." After hearing about an "underground railroad" and learning of a Quaker woman up the river who helps slaves "get on," Harriet tells her father she is escaping. He fears for he life and tells her there isn't really an underground railroad, but she is determined to go. Once at the Quaker woman's home, Harriet learns that the Underground Railroad is a route guided by "conductors" to the North. She goes forward and makes it to the main station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Once there, she is surprised to learn of the many different routes slaves are able to take to freedom. Hearing of her sister and family's proceeding sale, Harriet vows she will never be free until her family is free. Against the stationmaster's warnings, she heads South. Harriet continues to go back and forth from the North to the South and becomes known as the "Moses of her people" with a reward posted for her for $40,000. Harriet is able to successfully rescue her entire family, as well as 300 slaves on 17 dangerous missions to the Confederate South.
- DirectorCarl BinderStarsAdrian PasdarRae Dawn ChongAlisen Richmond-PeckA young boy is miraculously rescued after falling into a lake.
- DirectorPaul BogartGordon DouglasStarsJames GarnerLouis Gossett Jr.Susan ClarkIn 1857, con man Quincy Drew and his black friend Jason O'Rourke swindle slave owners into buying Jason, who's a free man, and later share the profits when Jason escapes captivity.
- DirectorJoel B. MarsdenStarsDjimon HounsouAkosua BusiaDe'aundre BondsWEST AFRICA 1869 - Slave trade is illegal. There is a revolt on a slave ship - twenty four men fight for their lives. Out-gunned, the revolt fails but a second uprising is planned.
- DirectorGuy DeslauriersStarsDjimon HounsouMaka KottoA realistic look at the horrors of the slave trade, told entirely through the voice of a dead African slave whose spirit haunts the ocean route.
- CreatorHolden MillerStarsSissy SpacekJ.K. SimmonsChai HansenFollows Franklin and Irene York, a couple who years ago discovered a chamber buried in their backyard which inexplicably leads to a strange, deserted planet.
- DirectorRobert BentonStarsSally FieldLindsay CrouseEd HarrisIn central Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsJames MasonSusan GeorgePerry KingAn 1840s slaveowner trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsLin GallagherA close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.
- DirectorScott SchirmerStarsEllie ChurchArthur CullipherJason CroweMary and PJ are kidnapped and tortured by a sadistic clown bent on transforming them into a 'doll' and a 'dog' -- servile sex slaves that will be sold to the highest bidders. When PJ goes mad, Mary becomes the couple's only hope of survival. But can she find a way out before auction day arrives?
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsRichard PryorJackie GleasonNed BeattyAn underemployed reporter finds himself literally purchased as a toy for a rich spoiled brat.
- DirectorHiro MuraiStarsDonald GloverBrian Tyree HenryLaKeith StanfieldAn office worker's world is turned upside down when he learns his past ancestors were slave owners.
- DirectorKrystin Ver LindenStarsKeke PalmerCommonJonny Lee MillerA slave in the antebellum South escapes her secluded plantation only to discover a shocking reality that lies beyond the tree line.
- StarsThuso MbeduChase DillonJoel EdgertonA young woman named Cora makes an amazing discovery during her attempt to break free from slavery in the deep south.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiKing AmpawJosé LewgoyDuring the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.
- StarsKatherine ParkinsonGemma ChanLucy CarlessIn a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth'--a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human--is transforming the way we live.