The Humanities Film Series presents

AMISTAD

Friday, October 14 @ 9 PM

ETC Lecture Hall

Steven Spielberg directed Amistad, an exploration of the true story of the U.S. Supreme Court case that tried the Africans responsible for the 1839 Amistad Mutiny, in which newly captured slaves rebelled against their captors and killed the captain of the slave ship on which they traveled. The film stars Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams; Djimon Hounsou as Cinque, the African who acts as a leader of the mutineers; Morgan Freeman as a free African American who acts as an advocate for the accused; and Matthew McConaughey as the attorney who defends them.