Freedom (2014)

Directed by

Peter Cousens

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

M

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film follows two parallel stories. One story is about a Black family escaping slavery in Virginia before the Civil War with help from the Underground Railroad and Frederick Douglass. The other story shows an ancestor's journey from Gambia to a British colony in South Carolina.

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What happens

Freedom is an American film directed by Peter Cousens, starring Cuba Gooding Jr., William Sadler and Sharon Leal. The film tells two stories in parallel. The first is the escape of a pre-Civil War Black family from slavery in Virginia to freedom in Canada, helped by the Underground Railroad, devout Quakers, and Frederick Douglass. The second story is the travel of an ancestor from Africa (Gambia) to a British colony in the New World (South Carolina). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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