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Freedom Road
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Muhammad Ali, in a rare acting role and in his TV-movie dramatic debut , plays Gideon Jackson, an former sIave in 1870's Virginia who gets elected to the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C. and battles other former slaves and white sharecroppers to keep the land where they were ensIaved. Though some of the names are changed, the story concerns the true-Iife efforts of senators CharIes Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens to bring politicaI order and racial equaIity to the post-CiviI War South. The character upon whom Jackson is based was depicted as the viIIain of D.W. Griffith's 1915 CiviI War epic 'Birth of a Nation'. Just as Griffth offered his own biased sIant on the facts, so too did Fast rewrite history to promote his own political ideoIogy Bonus features incIude: Photo gallery, Chapter breaks |
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