Slavery Movies

A free Black man from New York is tricked, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the South, where he endures twelve years of brutal servitude before...

Intrigue at the Roman Emperor's court prior to its destruction by Vesuvius.

About Omar Khayyam of Persia, the poet and mathematician, who wrote the Iranian first solar calendar circa A.D. 1073. His fiancé was forced to...

The story of Orisbela, a young and religious woman who comes from Portugal to Brazil to marry Francisco de Albuquerque, a rude sugar-cane plantation...

This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the 16th-century, when as a young man...

Six Black women throw themselves overboard to escape a slave ship bound for America. Based on Jericó Montilla's play of the same name (a free...

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...

After reclaiming a stolen treasure map, two brothers flee into the wilderness with a ruthless foreman and bloodthirsty bounty hunters on their heels....

One of the most important events in Brazilian history, the Búzios Revolt of 1798 was led by dozens of black men who rose up to overthrow the...

Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.

Simon Schama presents a drama-documentary that charts the extraordinary journey of the American slaves who fought for the British side in the...

In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with...

During the Civil War, a Quaker couple risks their lives by helping runaway slaves.

Historical documentary about the life of Victor Schoelcher, a French politician and abolitionist active from 1848 to 1893.

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

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...

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

Frans Bromet goes in search of his family history and discovers that Hermanus Bromet was a well-known slave trader in Suriname. Should he feel guilty...

Cartagena, Colombia – 1666. An enslaved woman accused of witchcraft comes face to face with evil incarnate and a Faustian bargain for her...