
A free Black man from New York is tricked, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the South, where he endures twelve years of brutal servitude before finding a way to contact his family and secure his freedom.
Directed by Gordon Parks, Shep Morgan
User score
6 votes


Released
September 21, 1991
1h 55m
English

Avery Brooks
Solomon Northup
Rhetta Greene
Jenny

Mason Adams
Ford
Emory Beasley
Alonzo

Kent Broadhurst
Bass

Lee Bryant
Mrs. Epps
Charles Darden
Robert
Tony Dreyspool
Senator Soule
Anthony Edenfield
Ned

Art Evans
Walton

J. Don Ferguson
Freeman
Ralph Flanders
Captain
Tanzia Franks
Elizabeth
Harry George
Sheriff
Ann Pearl Gray
Kelsey

Janet League
Eliza
Charles McGhee
Luke
Jay McMillan
Harry

Danny Nelson
Chapin
John D. Northup
Sherrill