Cast:Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Stellan Skarsgård, Anna Paquin, Arliss Howard, Xander Berkley, Jake Webber, Darren E. Burrows, Razaaq Adoti, Rusty Schwimmer
Release date: December 12, 1997 USA
DreamWorks Distribution,
American Broadcasting Company,
United International Pictures,
DreamWorks Home Entertainment,
Universal Home Video,
United International Pictures
Freedom is not given. It is our right at birth. But there are some moments when it must be taken.
Based on the true story of the failed mutiny on board the slave ship Amistad in 1839, and the courtroom battle that followed. In the trial that would challenge the very foundation of the American legal system, abolitionist Theodore Joadson, trial lawyer Roger Baldwin and ex-president John Quincy Adams argue for the freedom and civil rights of the captive African slaves.
