Movielogr
Freedom Road (1979)
Directed by Ján Kadár
Overview
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.
Length 186 minutes
Actors
Muhammad Ali | Kris Kristofferson | Ron O'Neal | Edward Herrmann | John McLiam | Ossie Davis | Barbarao | Sonny Jim Gaines | Joel Fluellen | Jean Foster | Grace Zabriskie | Bill Mackey | Earl D.A. Smith | Alfre Woodard | Fred Covington | Sonny Shroyer | Ernest Dixon | Sylvia Kuumba Williams | Tom Delaney | Ron Gural | William Allen Young | Tony Ross | Eric Washington | Rodney King Adams | Howard Brunner | Howland Chamberlain | Georgia Allen | James Bowman | Don Brady | Robert Bloodworth | Barbara Chaney | Stuart Culpepper | Lionel Ferbis Jr. | Peter Gabb | Ian Graham | Jerome Greene | Bill Holliday | Don Hood | Maurice Hunt | Don Lutenbacher | Ritchie Montgomery | Danny Nelson | Afemo Omilami | Courtney Pledger | David Robbins | Jeremiah Shabazz | Gregory White | Bob Zay