By Gordon Parks, Director. Hailed as the most devastating film about slavery ever, but the extraordinarily detailed memoir it’s based on shows the institution to be even more hideous than you can imagine. A freeborn black fiddler and carpenter in 1800s America is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South, struggling for over a decade to survive the brutal conditions and regain his freedom. Avery Brooks, Petronia Paley and John Saxon star in this powerful true account of racial injustice. Studio: Monterey Video (2005), DVD  Rated: NR (Not Rated), English, Run Time: 117 minutes.