3 h 6 min | Drama

IMDB 5.8 / 10 (200 votes)

Freedom Road (1979)

Freedom Road

Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.

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Description

Director

Ján Kadár

Stars

Muhammad Ali
Gideon Jackson

Kris Kristofferson
Abner Lait

Ron O'Neal
Francis Cardoza

Edward Herrmann
Stephen Holmes

John McLiam
President Ulysses S. Grant

Barbara O. Jones
Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)

Grace Zabriskie
Ruth Lait

Ossie Davis
Narrator

Alfre Woodard
Katie

Sonny Shroyer
Jason Hugar

Others...

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Production

Braun Entertainment Group, Worldvision

Actor

Muhammad Ali, Kris Kristofferson, Ron O'Neal, Edward Herrmann, John McLiam, Barbara O. Jones, Grace Zabriskie, Ossie Davis, Alfre Woodard, Sonny Shroyer

Creators

Charles Correll (Director of Photography), Anne Goursaud (Editor), George Folsey Jr. (Editor), Daniel A. Lomino (Production Design), Howard Fast (Novel), David Zelag Goodman (Writer), Zev Braun (Executive Producer), Leland Nolan (Producer), Ján Kadár (Director), Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (Original Music Composer), Chet Walker (Producer), Terry James (Original Music Composer), Jocelyn A. Cotlon (Set Decoration)

Release dates

29.10.1979 (US)

Freedom Road (1979)

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