Muhammad Ali, in a rare acting role, plays Gideon Jackson, an ex-slave in 1870's Virginia who gets elected to the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C. and battles other former slaves and white sharecroppers to keep the land they tended all their lives.
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Freedom Road was released on October 29, 1979.
Freedom Road was directed by Ján Kadár.
Freedom Road has a runtime of 3 hr 6 min.
Freedom Road was produced by Leland Nolan, Chet Walker.
The key characters in Freedom Road are Gideon Jackson (Muhammad Ali), Abner Lait (Kris Kristofferson), Francis Cardoza (Ron O'Neal).
Freedom Road is a Drama film.
Freedom Road has an audience rating of 5.8 out of 10.