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Alfre Woodard narrates this moving documentary about the 1839 revolt aboard the slave ship La Amistad. News items, letters, drawings and dramatic read...(read more...) ings by Charles Durning and Brock Peters chronicle the enslaved Africans who took over the &NFi;Amistad&NFi_;, were captured off New York City's coast and then put on trial. Interviews include historian Cheryl Johnson-Odim and Clifton H. Johnson, director of Tulane University's Amistad Research Center.

Director: H.D. Motyl

MPAA: Unrated

Release Date: Dec 31, 1998

Cast: Alfre Woodard, Brock Peters, Charles Durning