Good film but is it accurate?

Rating: Null/10 (22 July 2000)

The slaves topic will always be a very volatile subject but is this film accurate in its historical re-telling? That's a difficult question for me to answer but I think a good portion of this picture shows us just what African people had to suffer from a minority of the white race and their own.
This is not Spielberg's best direction, the framing was inconsistent but the photography was delightful and detailed.
The acting was good all round. Not being an historian, I can't comment on the story's accuracy especially the court scenes.
This picture probably was a little too long, the screenplay really required some more work.