Freedom Road

Name: Freedom Road
Director: Ján Kadár
Genre: Drama
Released: 1979-10-29
Duration: 3 h 6 min
Rating: 5.188
Cast: Muhammad Ali, Kris Kristofferson, Ron O'Neal, Edward Herrmann, John McLiam

1979

3h 6m

Drama

Director: Ján Kadár

Writer: David Zelag Goodman

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.