Release, runtime and language

1979 · 186 mins · English

Directed by

Ján Kadár

Starring

Kris Kristofferson, Howland Chamberlain, Muhammad Ali, Alfre Woodard, Ritchie Montgomery, Grace Zabriskie

Former Union soldier and ex‑slave Gideon Jackson advocates for his fellow freedmen at a constitutional convention and, despite fierce resistance from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK, wins a seat in the U.S. Senate. He allies with sharecropper Abner Lait, and together they bridge ex‑slaves and white tenant farmers into a united political front.