Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "runaway-slave"

1. Django Unchained (2012)

R | 165 min | Drama, Western

With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.

Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington

Votes: 1,692,000 | Gross: $162.81M

2. 12 Years a Slave (2013)

R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt

Votes: 740,604 | Gross: $56.67M

3. Cold Mountain (2003)

R | 154 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.

Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins

Votes: 155,929 | Gross: $95.64M

4. Emancipation (2022)

R | 132 min | Action, Thriller

A runaway slave forges through the swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey to escape plantation owners that nearly killed him.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Will Smith, Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa, Gilbert Owuor

Votes: 27,079

5. Antebellum (2020)

R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.

Directors: Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz | Stars: Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston

Votes: 29,769

6. The Robe (1953)

Approved | 135 min | Drama, History, Romance

In the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth but is tormented by his guilty conscience afterwards.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie

Votes: 11,720 | Gross: $36.00M

7. From Time to Time (2009)

PG | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, more than a century apart. When 13-year-old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.

Director: Julian Fellowes | Stars: Alex Etel, Timothy Spall, Maggie Smith, Christopher Villiers

Votes: 5,536

8. The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)

PG | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

In Missouri, during the 1840s, young Huck Finn fearful of his drunkard father and yearning for adventure, leaves his foster family and joins with runaway slave Jim in a voyage down the Mississippi River toward slavery free states.

Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Robards

Votes: 9,231 | Gross: $24.10M

9. Friendly Persuasion (1956)

Passed | 137 min | Drama, Family, Romance

The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer

Votes: 7,727

10. Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (2014)

Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The young magician Marek dreams of exciting adventures. When she meets the help-seeking priestess Teela she offers her assistance and provides a motley troupe. Together they go in search of Teela's sister, who was kidnapped by a wild ogre.

Director: Anne K. Black | Stars: Melanie Stone, Adam Johnson, Jake Stormoen, Nicola Posener

Votes: 5,178

11. Skin Game (1971)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Western

In 1857, con man Quincy Drew and his black friend Jason O'Rourke swindle slave owners into buying Jason, who's a free man, and later share the profits when Jason escapes captivity.

Directors: Paul Bogart, Gordon Douglas | Stars: James Garner, Louis Gossett Jr., Susan Clark, Brenda Sykes

Votes: 1,919 | Gross: $0.74M

12. Emperor (2020)

PG-13 | 99 min | Biography, Drama, History

An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.

Director: Mark Amin | Stars: Mykelti Williamson, James Cromwell, Bruce Dern, James Le Gros

Votes: 1,531

13. The Silver Chalice (1954)

Approved | 142 min | Drama, Romance

A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver, and sculpt around its rim, the faces of the disciples and Jesus. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance, Paul Newman

Votes: 1,783

14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)

Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Mark Twain's 1851 story about two runaway friends, a fostered white boy and an escaped black slave, who sailed on a raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom and adventure.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Tony Randall, Eddie Hodges, Archie Moore, Patty McCormack

Votes: 1,591

15. Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, War, Western

In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan

Votes: 4,152

16. Mythica: The Darkspore (2015)

Not Rated | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Marek and her company must go on a journey and prevent Szorlok from obtaining all the shards of the Darkspore, or all will be lost.

Director: Anne K. Black | Stars: Melanie Stone, Adam Johnson, Jake Stormoen, Nicola Posener

Votes: 3,870

17. Freedom (II) (2014)

R | 94 min | Drama, Music

Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856, slave Samuel Woodward and his family escape from the Monroe Plantation near Richmond, Virginia. A secret ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Cousens | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Sharon Leal, David Rasche, Kimberly Nichole

Votes: 2,208

18. Journey to Shiloh (1968)

Approved | 101 min | Drama, War, Western

At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.

Director: William Hale | Stars: James Caan, Michael Sarrazin, Brenda Scott, Don Stroud

Votes: 1,070

19. The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)

Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Drama

In the doomed Roman city, a gentle blacksmith becomes a corrupt gladiator, while his son leans toward Christianity.

Directors: Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper | Stars: Preston Foster, Basil Rathbone, David Holt, Alan Hale

Votes: 1,203

20. The Journey of August King (1995)

PG-13 | 91 min | Drama

A multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in April 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home after selling his produce and purchasing the stock and goods he will need ... See full summary »

Director: John Duigan | Stars: Jason Patric, Thandiwe Newton, Larry Drake, Sam Waterston

Votes: 1,054

21. The Price of Sugar (2013)

120 min | Drama, History

The Price Of Sugar tells the alternately gripping, romantic and heart-wrenching story of Sarith and Mini-Mini as they grow up on the sugar plantations of Suriname in the latter half of the ... See full summary »

Director: Jean van de Velde | Stars: Gaite Jansen, Neil Sandilands, Daniel Janks, Benja Bruijning

Votes: 1,662

22. The Prodigal (1955)

Approved | 112 min | Drama, Mystery

A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Lana Turner, Edmund Purdom, Louis Calhern, Audrey Dalton

Votes: 742

23. Slaves (1969)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama

A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.

Director: Herbert J. Biberman | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Dionne Warwick, Ossie Davis, Marilyn Clark

Votes: 214

24. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)

Passed | 144 min | Drama, History

Slavery tears apart a Black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.

Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Margarita Fischer, James B. Lowe, Arthur Edmund Carewe, George Siegmann

Votes: 501

25. Long Days of Vengeance (1967)

123 min | Western

After three years of hard labor, Ted Barnett escapes from prison to seek revenge on the three men who framed him.

Director: Florestano Vancini | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Francisco Rabal, Gabriella Giorgelli, Conrado San Martín

Votes: 509

26. The White Slave (2016– )

TV-MA | 60 min | History

In Colombia in 1821, a Spanish plantation gets burned down, and only the planters' baby is spared. She gets sent to Spain, but concocts a plan to return home and become an abolitionist.

Stars: Cristina García, Paola Moreno, Nerea Camacho, Federico Nieto-El' Gazi

Votes: 648

27. The Legend of the Golden Gun (1979 TV Movie)

Unrated | 100 min | Fantasy, Western

During the American Civil War, after his family is killed by Confederate raider William Quantrill, a young farmer seeks the help of a famous gunfighter in order to exact revenge on Quantrill.

Director: Alan J. Levi | Stars: Jeff Osterhage, Carl Franklin, Robert Davi, Keir Dullea

Votes: 327

28. Dog Jack (2010)

PG-13 | 114 min | Drama, War

In the midst of the Civil War, a boy and his dog escape a plantation and embark on a life-changing journey. Inspired by true events, "Dog Jack" chronicles a turbulent moment in American history, and a tale that's never been forgotten.

Director: Edward T. McDougal | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Benjamin Gardner, Frank Kasy, Kenneth Craig

Votes: 174

29. The Loves of Pharaoh (1922)

100 min | Drama, History

The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Paul Biensfeldt, Friedrich Kühne

Votes: 658

30. Captain Pirate (1952)

Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In 1690, pardoned pirate Captain Blood's quiet existence is shaken when the Crown re-arrests him on fresh piracy charges but the captain suspects he's being set up.

Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, John Sutton, Charles Irwin

Votes: 346

31. Defiant: Inspired by the Life of Robert Smalls

Biography, Drama, History | Announced

22 year-old enslaved man Robert Smalls steals a Confederate gunship and sails his family and the enslaved crew to freedom, persuading Abraham Lincoln to enlist Black soldiers and turn the tide of the Civil War.

32. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1984 TV Movie)

46 min | Animation, Family

The adventures of a teen-aged boy and his friend, a runaway slave, as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.

Stars: Simon Hinton, Alistair Duncan, Barbara Frawley, Phillip Hinton

Votes: 32

33. A Moreninha (1975– )

Drama, Romance

In 1866, during the anti-slavery movements, a romantic young lady, who lives on Paquetá Island, meets her childhood love again, who is now pursued by another young woman who does not spare efforts to be beside the man she loves.

Stars: Nívea Maria, Marco Nanini, Mário Cardoso, Roberto Bolant

Votes: 15

34. Life of St. Paul (1938)

Not Rated | 120 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Multi-part dramatization of the life of St. Paul.

Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Neal Arden, Josephine Wilson, George Hayes, Charles Oliver

Votes: 26

35. Frederick Douglass: The House on Cedar Hill (1953)

17 min | Documentary, Short, History

A portrait of Frederick Douglass, the runaway slave who became an editor, orator, and statesman. Includes historical documents, period drawings, photographs, and mementos found in the Douglass home in Washington, D.C.

Director: Carlton Moss | Star: Stuart Rigby

36. American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1986)

Not Rated | 240 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. In HD.

Director: Peter H. Hunt | Stars: Patrick Day, Jim Dale, Frederic Forrest, Anne Shropshire

Votes: 237

37. The Chisholms (1979– )
Episode: Chains (1980)

46 min | Romance, Western

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Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr. | Stars: Rosemary Harris, Ben Murphy, James Van Patten, Susan Swift

Votes: 7

38. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: The Mermaid/The Victim (1979)

TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Julie Brett disregards Roarke's warnings and dates her dream man Michael Duvall, only to wind up as a sex slave; and college professor Harold DeHaven, hoping to make a significant scientific discovery, meets up with a mermaid.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, James Darren, Yvonne De Carlo

Votes: 97

39. Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode: Innocent Man (1992)

TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Immortal and former Confederate Captain Lucas Desiree was killed after many years of solitary retreat. A Vietnam's War Veteran partially insane is accused of his murder. Duncan decides to investigate.

Director: Jorge Montesi | Stars: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Vandernoot, Stan Kirsch, Amanda Wyss

Votes: 283

40. Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode: Manhunt (1996)

TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Immortal Carl Robinson has a great baseball career until he is seen killing another Immortal and forced to run for his life. He asks Duncan for help, but when another man is arrested for ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Ellis | Stars: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Jim Byrnes, Bruce A. Young

Votes: 161

41. Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode: Revelation 6:8 (1997)

TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Sequel to 'Comes a Horseman.' Methos leads Kronos to the remaining two horsemen, and the four of them plan to destroy humanity via a water-borne virus.

Director: Adrian Paul | Stars: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Jim Byrnes, Valentine Pelka

Votes: 233

42. Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode: The Messenger (1996)

TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

An Immortal "Messenger" of pacifism, who pretends to be Methos to give his message weight, preaches peace between Immortals. Richie becomes his latest convert and tries to convince Duncan ... See full summary »

Director: James Bruce | Stars: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Jim Byrnes, Ron Perlman

Votes: 176

43. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: The Grell (1999)

TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An alien slave belonging to the species Grell rescues his owner's family after their plane is shot down in an attack by the Grell rebellion.

Director: Jorge Montesi | Stars: Ted Shackelford, Maurice Dean Wint, Britt McKillip, Blair Slater

Votes: 245

44. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Bread and Circuses (1968)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The Enterprise crew investigates the disappearance of a ship's crew on a planet that is a modern version of the Roman Empire.

Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Smithers

Votes: 3,269

45. A House Through Time (2018– )
Episode: Episode #3.1 (2020)

59 min | Documentary, Biography, History

David Olusoga investigates the residents of an 18th-century house in Bristol over time, uncovering stories of piracy, an abandoned baby, a notorious political writer and a runaway slave.

Director: Eleanor Scoones | Stars: David Olusoga, Ian Hislop

Votes: 13

46. Joséphine, ange gardien (1997– )
Episode: Enfin libres! (2019)

40 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Joséphine has landed in Martinique, first she observes how slaves try to escape from their masters, she listens the name of Scipion.And suddenly she is back to the modern times in Martique:... See full summary »

Director: Thierry Petit | Stars: Mimie Mathy, Sandrine Salyères, Souleymane Touré, Charline Antunes

Votes: 6

47. Heirs to the Land (2022)
Episode: Beatriz (2022)

TV-MA | Drama

Bernat fulfills his promises to Hugo. Caterina expresses her feelings. Barcha's earnest action has devastating repercussions for Merce and her family.

Director: Jordi Frades | Stars: Yon González, Elena Rivera, Rodolfo Sancho, Aria Bedmar

Votes: 52

48. North and South, Book II (1986)
Episode: September 17, 1862 - Spring 1864 (1986)

94 min | Drama, History, Romance

By September 1862, the South appears to be on the verge of victory. President Lincoln wants to emancipate all slaves but recognizes he needs a victory on the battlefield before he can do so... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Kirstie Alley, David Carradine, Philip Casnoff, Mary Crosby

Votes: 193

49. Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012– )
Episode: From the Manor Born (2021)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

Actress Glenn Close and film director John Waters learn about their brave ancestors who fought to live their lives the way they saw fit for better or worse, but also those who vehemently fought against the notions of freedom and equality.

Director: Krista Whetstone | Stars: Glenn Close, Henry Louis Gates Jr., John Waters

Votes: 41

50. Lost Girl (2010–2016)
Episode: BrotherFae of the Wolves (2011)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

The unexpected arrival of Dyson's former pack-mate lands Bo in the middle of a black market arms deal involving a very rare Mongolian Death Worm.

Director: Clark Johnson | Stars: Anna Silk, Kris Holden-Ried, Ksenia Solo, Zoie Palmer

Votes: 305