Freedom Road
Drama
★ 5.2/1019793h 6m
Director: Ján Kadár
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.
Runtime
3h 6m
Language
English
Released
Oct 29, 1979
Runtime
3h 6m
Language
English
Released
Oct 29, 1979
Cast
Muhammad Ali
Gideon Jackson
Kris Kristofferson
Abner Lait
Ron O'Neal
Francis Cardoza
Edward Herrmann
Stephen Holmes
John McLiam
President Ulysses S. Grant
Ossie Davis
Narrator
Barbara O. Jones
Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)
Sonny Jim Gaines
Sonny Jim Gaines
Brother Peter
Joel Fluellen
James Allenby
Jean Foster
Jean Foster
Ellen Allenby
Grace Zabriskie
Ruth Lait
Bill Mackey
Bill Mackey
Trooper
Earl D.A. Smith
Earl D.A. Smith
Hannibal
Alfre Woodard
Katie
Fred Covington
Fred Covington
Sheriff Bentley
Sonny Shroyer
Jason Hugar
Ernest Dixon
Ernest Dixon
Marion Jefferson
Sylvia Kuumba Williams
Sylvia Kuumba Williams
Louise Jefferson
Tom Delaney
Tom Delaney
Will Boone
Ron Gural
Ron Gural
Frank Carlson
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