Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

12 Years a Slave

Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Solomon Northup, a freed slave who lived in the south before the Civil War. This 2013 biopic displays the horror of being a slave in the 19th century. All freed slaves ran the risk of being kidnapped and resold, despite their freedom status.

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