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6 films tagged slavery
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2012 · Action
A slave is bought by a German bounty hunter in 1858 and taught to shoot, on the way to a Mississippi plantation where his wife is being held. Long talky stretches broken by short bursts of extreme violence.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2000 · Action
A Roman general betrayed by the new emperor is sold into slavery and fights his way back up through the arenas towards Rome. Big battles, big crowds, and a story that runs in a straight line.
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2024 · Action
Years after the first film, a captured man from a North African city is brought to Rome to fight in the Colosseum for an owner with plans of his own. Big crowds, big fights, and scheming in between.
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2022 · Action
Two men in 1920s India, one working for the British and one hunting for a girl taken from his village, become close friends without knowing who the other is. Three hours of dancing, fighting and no physics at all.
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2013 · Drama
A free Black musician living in New York in 1841 is drugged, kidnapped and sold to a plantation in Louisiana. It moves slowly and stays with the worst of it rather than cutting away.
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2016 · Documentary
An argument that American mass incarceration runs directly from slavery through the wording of one constitutional amendment. Archive footage and interviews throughout.
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