Freedom Road

Freedom Road

186 mins | Drama | Oct. 29, 1979

Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.

Freedom Road

186 mins | Drama | Oct. 29, 1979

Freedom Road
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers Braun Entertainment Group, Worldvision
Original title Freedom Road
Directors Ján Kadár
Writers David Zelag Goodman, Howard Fast

Cast

Muhammad Ali

as Gideon Jackson

Kris Kristofferson

as Abner Lait

Ron O'Neal

as Francis Cardoza

Edward Herrmann

as Stephen Holmes

John McLiam

as President Ulysses S. Grant

Ossie Davis

as Narrator

Barbara O. Jones

as Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)

Sonny Jim Gaines

as Brother Peter

Joel Fluellen

as James Allenby

Jean Foster

as Ellen Allenby

Grace Zabriskie

as Ruth Lait

Bill Mackey

as Trooper

Earl D.A. Smith

as Hannibal

Alfre Woodard

as Katie

Fred Covington

as Sheriff Bentley

Sonny Shroyer

as Jason Hugar

Ernest Dixon

as Marion Jefferson

Sylvia Kuumba Williams

as Louise Jefferson

Tom Delaney

as Will Boone

Ron Gural

as Frank Carlson

William Allen Young

as Older Jeff Jackson

Tony Ross

as Young Jeff Jackson