Film

Solomon Northup's Odyssey

6.819911h 55m14TV Movie Drama

Age rating: 14
Director: Gordon Parks
Year: 1991

A free Black man from New York is tricked, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the South, where he endures twelve years of brutal servitude before finding a way to contact his family and secure his freedom.

Top cast

Avery Brooks

Solomon Northup

Rhetta Greene

Jenny

Mason Adams

Ford

Emory Beasley

Alonzo

Kent Broadhurst

Bass

Lee Bryant

Mrs. Epps

Charles Darden

Robert

Tony Dreyspool

Senator Soule

Anthony Edenfield

Ned

Art Evans

Walton

J. Don Ferguson

Freeman

Ralph Flanders

Captain

Tanzia Franks

Elizabeth

Harry George

Sheriff

Ann Pearl Gray

Kelsey

Janet League

Eliza

Charles McGhee

Luke

Jay McMillan

Harry

Directed by

Gordon Parks

Produced by

Yanna Kroyt Brandt