Freedom Road
📅 10/29/1979⏱️ 186 minutes★5.2/10
Freedom Road
📅 10/29/1979⏱️ 186 minutes★5.2/10
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.
Release Date
October 29, 1979
Runtime
186 minutes
Rating
★5.2/10(8 votes)
Status
Released
Genres
Drama
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)
Joel Fluellen
James Allenby
Grace Zabriskie
Ruth Lait
Alfre Woodard
Katie
Sonny Shroyer
Jason Hugar
William Allen Young
Older Jeff Jackson
Content Source
Data provided by The Movie Database (TMDB).
