# The best movies and series about slavery

From Roots and Mandingo to Amistad, 12 Years a Slave and The Underground Railroad: the films and series about slavery in America recommended by Panorama Cultural and El Tiempo.

- 442 votes · 10 items
- Dec 11, 2024 · Mario
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## Top 10

1. **12 Years a Slave (2013)** (52 · ▲58 ▼6) — Steve McQueen. Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery. Best Picture Oscar.
2. **The Underground Railroad (2021)** (41 · ▲46 ▼5) — Barry Jenkins series: Cora's escape, from Colson Whitehead's novel.
3. **Roots (1977)** (40 · ▲43 ▼3) — Miniseries from Alex Haley's novel: Kunta Kinte and his descendants.
4. **Amistad (1997)** (39 · ▲45 ▼6) — Steven Spielberg. The 1839 revolt on the slave ship La Amistad and the trial that followed.
5. **Glory (1989)** (37 · ▲42 ▼5) — Edward Zwick. The 54th Massachusetts, the Union's first regiment of Black soldiers.
6. **Django Unchained (2012)** (25 · ▲32 ▼7) — Quentin Tarantino. A freed slave searches for his wife with a bounty hunter.
7. **Beloved (1998)** (22 · ▲30 ▼8) — Jonathan Demme. A former slave haunted by her past, from Toni Morrison's novel.
8. **Amazing Grace (2006)** (21 · ▲30 ▼9) — Michael Apted. William Wilberforce and the abolition of the slave trade in Britain.
9. **Mandingo (1975)** (21 · ▲27 ▼6) — Richard Fleischer. The brutality of a Louisiana slave plantation.
10. **Manderlay (2005)** (16 · ▲25 ▼9) — Lars von Trier. An Alabama plantation where slavery goes on seventy years after abolition.

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