Movie
1997
Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by David Franzoni, based on the events in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by the Washington, a U.S. revenue cutter. The…
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*(SPECIAL NOTE: Capsule version of the review is available here.)* Most Americans like to think of their nation as a perfect embodiment of all noble ideals of liberty and for them America is the only place where man can be truly free. However, in early 19th Century this wasn't the case and there were some areas where young American republic proved more tyrannical and despotic than old monarchies of Europe. One of th…More
