Amistad (1997)
• December 10th, 1997 • 2h 35min
Drama, History, Mystery
Overview
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Released on: 1967-06-30
History, Crime
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised cr...
Morituri
Released on: 1965-08-24
Action, Drama, Thriller, War
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS offi...
Héliogabale
Released on: 2024-12-01
Drama, History
222 A.D. During yet another decadent party, Emperor Heliogabalus recalls his former lover Zotikos fr...
Midnight Crossing
Released on: 1988-05-13
Mystery, Thriller
A blind woman, her husband and another couple sail off to find cash hidden on an island near Cuba.
Man of a Thousand Faces
Released on: 1957-08-15
Drama
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Cha...
Friendly Persuasion
Released on: 1956-10-30
Drama, War
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to vio...
The Life of Emile Zola
Released on: 1937-09-09
Drama, History
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair...
Young Bess
Released on: 1953-05-29
Drama, History, Romance
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch ...
Living Dangerously
Released on: 1987-07-24
Drama, War, History, Romance
In 1950s Havana, a romance blooms between two young revolutionaries whose clandestine printing press...
Aida
Released on: 1953-10-23
Drama, Music
This Italian film version of Verdi's opera stars Sophia Loren on the screen, with Renata Tebaldi pro...
Carceller, the Man Who Died Twice
Released on: 2021-10-24
Documentary, History
The life story of Vicente Miguel Carceller (1890-1940), a Spanish editor committed to freedom who, t...
The King and the Clown
Released on: 2005-12-29
Drama, History, Thriller
Two clowns living in Korea's Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king....
Jolson Sings Again
Released on: 1949-08-17
Drama, Music
In this sequel to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the st...
The Babe Ruth Story
Released on: 1948-09-16
Drama
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run h...
Valentino
Released on: 1977-09-07
Drama
The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to rem...
Burn!
Released on: 1969-12-21
History, Drama, War
The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Q...
Isadora
Released on: 1968-09-14
Drama, History, Music
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of bal...
Bitter Sugar
Released on: 1996-02-10
Drama, Romance
A patriot (René Lavan) with a rebellious brother falls in love with a dissident's daughter (Mayte Vi...
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Released on: 1940-02-22
Drama, History
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lin...
Edison, the Man
Released on: 1940-05-10
History, Drama
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story star...