公元前73年，來自古羅馬利比亞省的奴隸斯巴達克斯（Kirk Douglas 飾）在加普亞格鬥學校中愛上了女奴瓦瑞妮婭（Jean Simmons 飾）。同年，格鬥學校的奴隸在斯巴達克斯帶領下發動起義，獲得自由，隨後斯巴達克斯與瓦瑞妮婭團聚，結為夫婦。起義震驚了羅馬的統治集團，激化了元老院中貴族派和平民派的矛盾。貴族將領克拉蘇（Laurence Olivier 飾）乘機擊敗平民派首領格拉古（Charles Laughton 飾），篡奪了首席執政官的權力，實行獨裁。格拉古為了打擊克拉蘇，打算私下放走奴隸大軍；克拉蘇卻重金收買了海盜，並召回在國外作戰的兩支大軍。斯巴達克斯起義軍三面受敵，寡不抵眾，數萬奴隸戰死，他與妻子和六千倖存戰友均被克拉蘇所俘。在最後的關頭，由於格拉古的幫助，情況又發生了變化。
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.
Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethiopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome's status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in form of Marcus Lucinius Crassus, who makes it a matter of personal honor to crush the rebellion.
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.