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    Poster of the movie Freedom Road [1979]
    1979     Drama    
    3h 6min
    CountryUSA

    Muhammad Ali, in a rare acting role, plays Gideon Jackson, an ex-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 they tended all their lives.

    Directed byJán Kadár
    Written byHoward Fast, David Zelag Goodman
    CompanyNational Broadcasting CompanyNational Broadcasting CompanyNational Broadcasting Company

    Starring

    Kris Kristofferson
    Edward Herrmann
    Ossie Davis
    Grace Zabriskie
    Alfre Woodard
    Muhammad Ali
    Ron O'Neal
    John McLiam
    Barbarao
    Sonny Jim Gaines
    Joel Fluellen
    Jean Foster
    Bill Mackey
    Earl D.A. Smith
    Fred Covington
    Sonny Shroyer
    Ernest Dixon
    Tom Delaney
    Ron Gural
    William Allen Young
    Tony Ross
    Eric Washington
    Rodney King Adams
    Howard Brunner
    Howland Chamberlain
    Georgia Allen
    James Bowman
    Don Brady
    Robert Bloodworth
    Barbara Chaney
    Stuart Culpepper

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