Freedom Road (1979)
3h 6m
Running Time
October 29, 1979Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Muhammad Ali
Gideon Jackson
Kris Kristofferson
Abner Lait
Ron O'Neal
Francis Cardoza
Edward Herrmann
Stephen Holms
John McLiam
President Ulysses S. Grant
Ossie Davis
Narrator
Barbara O. Jones
Rachel Jackson
Sonny Jim Gaines
Brother Peter
Joel Fluellen
James Allenby
Jean Foster
Ellen Allenby
Grace Zabriskie
Ruth Lait
Ján Kadár
Director
Bill Mackey
Trooper
Howard Fast
Writer
Earl D.A. Smith
Hannibal
Alfre Woodard
Katie
David Zelag Goodman
Writer
Fred Covington
Sheriff Bentley
Leland Nolan
Producer
Sonny Shroyer
Jason Hugar
Chet Walker
Producer
Terry James
Composer
Ernest Dixon
Marion Jefferson
Sylvia Kuumba Williams
Louise Jefferson
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Composer
Tom Delaney
Will Boone
Charles Correll
Cinematographer
George Folsey Jr.
Editor
Ron Gural
Frank Carlson
Anne Goursaud
Editor
William Allen Young
Older Jeff Jackson
Tony Ross
Young Jeff Jackson
Daniel A. Lomino
ProductionDesigner
Eric Washington
Older Marcus Jackson
Rodney King Adams
Young Marcus Jackson
Howard Brunner
Lawyer Greene
Howland Chamberlain
Isaac Went
Georgia Allen
Mrs. Carter
James Bowman
1st White Trash Delegate
Don Brady
2nd White Trash Delegate
Robert Bloodworth
Major at Convention
Barbara Chaney
Mrs. Ganfret
Stuart Culpepper
Major Walsh
Lionel Ferbis Jr.
Uncle Baddy
Peter Gabb
3rd White Trash Delegate
Ian Graham
Jimmy Lait
Jerome Greene
Black Delegate
Bill Holliday
Yankee Boss
Don Hood
Gen. Ganfret
Maurice Hunt
Dudley Carwell
Don Lutenbacher
Convention Speaker
Ritchie Montgomery
Soldier
Danny Nelson
Auctioneer
Afemo Omilami
Young Black Man with Scars
Courtney Pledger
Mrs. Dupre
David Robbins
Wounded Redshirt
Jeremiah Shabazz
Well-Dressed Black Delegate
Gregory White
Clair Willis
Bob Zay
Roger Dupre
Tony Brubaker
Stunt Double
Zev Braun
Executive Producer
Jocelyn A. Cotlon
Set Decoration
Bill Webb
Set Decoration
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Freedom Road was a 1979 American TV historical drama mini-series starring boxer Muhammad Ali and Kris Kristofferson, based on the 1944 novel by Howard Fast and directed by Jan Kadar. Running for four hours, it was first broadcast on NBC on October 29 and 30, 1979.