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Release Date: 1997   Duration: 155 min

Cast: Djimon Hounsou, Razaaq Adoti, David Paymer, Matthew McConaughey, Jeremy Northam, Kevin J. O'Connor, Stellan Skarsgård, Anna Paquin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Abu Bakaar Fofanah, Pete Postlethwaite, Darren E. Burrows ...MORE

Cast: Djimon Hounsou, Razaaq Adoti, David Paymer, Matthew McConaughey, Jeremy Northam, Kevin J. O'Connor, Stellan Skarsgård, Anna Paquin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Abu Bakaar Fofanah, Pete Postlethwaite, Darren E. Burrows, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Harry Blackmun, Tomás Milián, Nigel Hawthorne ...LESS

Categories: Movies, History, Historical fiction, Mystery, Period piece, Drama, Costume drama, Courtroom Drama

Amistad is a 1997 historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg based on the notable mutiny in 1839 by newly captured Mende slaves who took control of the ship La Amistad off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by a U.S. revenue cutter. It became a United States Supreme Court case of 1841. Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hopkins,   MORE

Amistad is a 1997 historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg based on the notable mutiny in 1839 by newly captured Mende slaves who took control of the ship La Amistad off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by a U.S. revenue cutter. It became a United States Supreme Court case of 1841. Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, and Matthew McConaughey had starring roles. David Franzoni's screenplay was based on the book, Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy, by the historian Howard Jones. LESS