num_pages: 128
description: This elegant volume commemorates the creation of an extraordinary movie, featuring: specially commissioned watercolors which served as "storyboards"; production and historical photos and documents; essays by director Spielberg, producer Allen (who pursued the project for 13 years), and poet Angelou; and a lengthy text on the making of the film about the fight for freedom by 53 Africans, who, in 1839, were captured as slaves and who rebelled on the Spanish slave ship Amistad.
language: English
title: Amistad: 'Give Us Free'
titlecomplete: Amistad: 'Give Us Free' (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks)
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Newmarket Press