American Playhouse - Season 4 Episode 3 Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Solomon Northup's Odyssey, reissued as Half Slave, Half Free, is a 1984 American television film based on the autobiography Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The film, which aired on PBS, was directed by Gordon Parks with Avery Brooks starring as the titular character. It was the second film to be funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, following Denmark Vesey's Rebellion in 1982. Parks returned to direct the film after years of absence. He chose to work in the Deep South and to collaborate with a crew of mixed races. The film first aired on PBS on December 10, 1984 and as part of PBS's American Playhouse anthology television series in the following year. It was released on video under the title Half Slave, Half Free.
First Air Date: Jan 12, 1982
Last Air date: Jul 06, 1990
Season: 13 Season
Episode: 149 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 6.00/10 by 7.00 users
Popularity: 18.362
Language: English
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Testament
A Matter of Principle
Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Tomorrow
Go Tell It On the Mountain
Noon Wine
The Joy That Kills
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski
Some Men Need Help
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Breakfast with Les and Bess
Nightsongs
Under the Biltmore Clock
Displaced Person
The Europeans
El Norte
Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part I
Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part II
Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part III
Paper Angels
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof