Amistad1997
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 155 minutes
Stars: Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 155 minutes
Steven Spielberg's most simplistic, sanitized history lesson, Amistad, explores the symbolic 1840s trials of 53 West Africans following their bloody rebellion aboard a slave ship. For most of Schindler's List (and, later, Saving Private Ryan) Spielb… more »
Theodore Joadson:
There remains one task undone. One vital task the Founding Fathers left to their sons...
John Quincy Adams:
Yes?
Theodore Joadson:
...before their thirteen colonies could precisely be called United States. And that task, Sir, as you well know, is crushing slavery.
Submitted by wikidude on November 05, 2019
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