Espartaco era un esclavo tracio que fue vendido como gladiador a Léntulo Batiato. En Italia promovió y dirigió la rebelión de los esclavos (73-71 a.C.) contra la República romana. A medida que recorrían el país, innumerables esclavos se iban sumando a la rebelión. Espartaco intentará llegar con su ejército al sur de Italia para poner rumbo a sus hogares.
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.
Condenado a pasar el resto de su vida trabajando en el desierto egipcio, la suerte del esclavo tracio Espartaco cambia, tras ser adquirido por el propietario de una escuela de gladiadores romanos. Con el tiempo, se convertirá en el cabecilla de una rebelión de esclavos que pondrá en peligro la ciudad de Roma.
In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl who he later finds is an escaped slave girl belonging to the wicked Caliph. They flee to his father's palace. But alas, there's more to her than meets the eye. Will the evil schemers succeed? The sons of the Forty Thieves to the rescue!
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious 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.
A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.
A team of journalists investigate how human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast fuels the worldwide chocolate industry. The crew interview both proponents and opponents of these alleged practices, and use hidden camera techniques to delve into the gritty world of cocoa plantations.
1645. Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a Kalinago native and wife of a French colonist, leads Olaudah, an escaped African captive, on a journey where he may lose his freedom and his life. She is ready to sacrifice him to save her own skin. But their wounds bring them together. Will this be enough to make them something other than what colonisation has decided they should be: a savage to be exterminated, an African to be enslaved?
The incidents of this story are some of those preceding and leading up to the Civil War in 1861 and the Declaration of Emancipation. The central figure in the drama is Uncle Tom, a slave initially in the possession of the Shelbys of Kentucky. A 1927 re-release of this film cut the original runtime in half, and in its extant, fragmentary state, it runs 14 minutes.
Two young artists leave the capital to see an old ritual that depicts the runaway slaves, in the interior of Brazil. There, they are involved with the celebration in an unexpected way.
The first screen adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel to star a black man in the title role.