It has already been made before

Rating: Null/10 (19 January 2014)

I have not seen this film yet. But I will. I know that it is a truly great movie. The only thing that many, if most or all, users have forgotten, but maybe they don't know, it that this story, the autobiography of Solomon Northrup, has already been told for the small screen, in the eighties, directed by the great black film maker Gordon Parks, the SHAFT films director, a sort of Spike Lee before his time, and also Steve Mc Queen too.
This TV movie was powerful. That's all. I just wanted to point this out. No one seems to have seen it. Steve Mac Queen is a director who deserves to be watched, a great one, no doubt about it.