Avery Brooks, Joe Seneca, John Saxon

Based on the autobiography &NFi;Twelve Years a Slave&NFi_;, this gripping drama tells the true story of Solomon Northup (Avery Brooks), a black man living in Washington, D.C., in the mid-19th century....( read more  read more... ) Northup, born a free man, works as a carpenter and musician. But one day in 1841, he's kidnapped by a Louisiana slave owner and forced into slavery. Northup spends a dozen years enduring harrowing hardships, while his family desperately searches for him.

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Directed by: Gordon Parks

Release Date: December 31, 1984

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DVD Release Date: April 5, 2005

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