Topic: Slavery

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Yoshiaki Hanayaki · Kyôko Kagawa · Eitarô Shindô

Plot 'Sansho Dayu' reaches back to a Japanese folk tale of the 12th century to depict the barbarism of a dark age, when people didn't know how to be human. When...

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Kirk Douglas · Tony Curtis · Laurence Olivier · Peter Ustinov

Plot Based on the homonymous novel by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave who leads a violent...

Direction Quentin Tarantino

Cast Jamie Foxx · Christoph Waltz · Leonardo DiCaprio · Kerry Washington

Plot With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. In the American South, two years before The Civil...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Charlton Heston · Jack Hawkins · Stephen Boyd · Haya Harareet

Plot Anno Domini: the seventh year of Augustus Caesar's reign. In the Roman province of Judea, Jews return to the city of their birth for the census. A bright star in...

Direction Ridley Scott

Cast Russell Crowe · Joaquin Phoenix · Connie Nielsen · Oliver Reed

Plot Maximus (Crowe) is a brave and loyal military general to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Harris). His loyalty does not go unnoticed as the Emperor makes preparations for Maximus to succeed...

Direction John Milius · William J. MacDonald · Bruno Heller · Michael Apted

Cast Kevin McKidd · Ray Stevenson · Polly Walker · James Purefoy

Plot TV Series (2005-2007). 2 Seasons. 22 Episodes. The year is 52 B.C. Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a...

Direction Steven S. DeKnight · Michael Hurst · Rick Jacobson · Jesse Warn

Cast Liam McIntyre · Manu Bennett · Dustin Clare · Daniel Feuerriegel

Plot TV Miniseries (2013). 10 Episodes. Gaius Claudius Glaber is dead. Many months have passed since his defeat, and the rebel army, led by Spartacus and his generals Crixus, Gannicus and...

Direction Steven S. DeKnight · Rick Jacobson · Michael Hurst · Jesse Warn

Cast Andy Whitfield · Lucy Lawless · John Hannah · Manu Bennett

Plot TV Series (2010). 13 Episodes. Betrayed by the Romans. Forced into slavery. Reborn as a Gladiator. The classic tale of the Republic’s most infamous rebel comes alive in the graphic...

Direction Steven S. DeKnight · Rick Jacobson

Cast John Hannah · Dustin Clare · Lucy Lawless · Peter Mensah

Plot TV Miniseries (2011). 6 Episodes. Spartacus: Gods of the Arena is a Starz television mini-series and prequel to Spartacus: Blood and Sand, scheduled to premiere January 21, 2011.[1] The series...

Direction Steve McQueen

Cast Chiwetel Ejiofor · Michael Fassbender · Lupita Nyong'o · Paul Dano

Plot Based on a true story, 12 YEARS A SLAVE is a riveting account of a free black man kidnapped and sold into brutal slavery in mid-1850s Louisiana, and the inspiring...

Direction Lars von Trier

Cast Bryce Dallas Howard · Isaach de Bankole · Danny Glover · Willem Dafoe

Plot This is the strange, disturbing story of the Manderlay plantation. Manderlay lay on a lonely plain somewhere in the deep south of the USA. It was in the year of...

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky · John Erman · David Greene · Gilbert Moses

Cast Todd Bridges · Robert Reed · John Amos · Madge Sinclair

Plot From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a...

Direction Miguel Ángel Rosales

Direction Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Cast Nelson Villagra · Silvano Rey · Luis Alberto García · José Antonio Rodríguez

Direction Steven S. DeKnight · Rick Jacobson

Cast Liam McIntyre · Manu Bennett · Dustin Clare · Daniel Feuerriegel

Plot TV Series (2012). 10 Episodes. Spartacus: Vengeance is the title of the second season of Spartacus, a New Zealand produced, Starz television series, which follows Spartacus: Blood and Sand. It...

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast Marlon Brando · Evaristo Márquez · Renato Salvatori · Norman Hill

Plot The man who sells war. The bloodier the battle - the higher the price. He's going to make a fortune on this one.

Direction Bruce Beresford · Thomas Carter · Phillip Noyce · Mario Van Peebles

Cast Malachi Kirby · Laurence Fishburne · Forest Whitaker · Emayatzy Corinealdi

Plot TV Miniseries (2016). 4 Episodes. An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave sold to America and his descendants.

Direction Rodd Rathjen

Cast Sarm Heng · Thanawut Kasro · Mony Ros · Saichia Wongwirot

Plot A 14-year-old Cambodian boy leaves home in search of a better life but is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gary Cooper · Paulette Goddard · Howard Da Silva · Boris Karloff

Plot It's 1763 and two men taking the same ship back to Virginia from London bid for the contract of a woman who was given a choice between execution in England...

Direction Phillip Noyce

Cast Everlyn Sampi · Tianna Sansbury · Laura Monaghan · Kenneth Branagh

Plot The true story of three aboriginal girls who were forcibly taken from their homes in 1931 to be trained as domestic servants as part of an official Australian government policy....