Cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Pedro Armendariz, Jeremy Northam, Paul Guilfoyle, David Paymer, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Peter Firth
Director: Steven Spielberg
Rating: R
Studio: DreamWorks SKG
Release date: December 10th, 1997
Synopsis:
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.