Freedom Road – Muhammad Ali DVD

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A former slave Gideon Jackson, after fighting in the civil war returns home as a free man and becomes a U.S. senator. Will he ever achieve real equality with his former white master?

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Muhammad Ali, in a rare acting role and in his TV-movie dramatic debut, plays Gideon Jackson, an former slave 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 enslaved. Though some of the names are changed, the story concerns the true-life efforts of senators Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens to bring political order and racial equality to the post-Civil War South. The character upon whom Jackson is based was depicted as the villain of D.W. Griffith’s 1915 Civil War epic ‘Birth of a Nation’. Just as Griffth offered his own biased slant on the facts, so too did Fast rewrite history to promote his own political ideology

 

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This item is a manufactured-on-demand release. Using recordable CDs & DVDs, the label who owns the rights to these MOD releases, custom burns discs for each order sold. Most titles previously had a pressed release but have lapsed out of print and are now only available on these  MOD discs.

 

 

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Format

MOD DVD

Release Year

1979

Region Code

DVD: 0/All (Region Free/Worldwide)

Special Features

Manufactured on Demand, NTSC

Genre

Drama

Actor

Muhammad Ali

Movie/TV Title

Freedom Road

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