Feature film — 1991

Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1991)

6.81h 55mTV Movie — Drama

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 finding a way to contact his family and secure his freedom.

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A high-signal pick with 6 votes.

The Fremantle Corporation / Past America

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Director: Gordon Parks

On screen

Cast & crew

Avery Brooks

Solomon Northup

Rhetta Greene

Jenny

Mason Adams

Ford

Emory Beasley

Alonzo

Kent Broadhurst

Bass

Lee Bryant

Mrs. Epps

Charles Darden

Robert

Tony Dreyspool

Senator Soule

Anthony Edenfield

Ned

Art Evans

Walton

J. Don Ferguson

Freeman

Ralph Flanders

Captain

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