AMISTAD

Based on a true story, several Africans are put on trial in the United States for killing the captain of the ship they were being transported on, and one lawyer challenges the politics of the time saying that they had the right to kill the man because he was selling them as slaves. In the beginning of the movie Amistad, slave hunters abducted a large group of Africans from Sierra Leone in Africa and shipped them to Cuba to be t...