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Black Beauty is a 1994 American film adaptation of Anna Sewell 's novel by the same name directed by Caroline Thompson in her directorial debut . The film stars Andrew Knott , Sean Bean and David Thewlis . The film is also treated as an autobiography of the horse Black Beauty as in the original novel , and is narrated by Alan Cumming as the voice of the ` Black Beauty ' . This is the fifth feature film adaptation of the 1877 classic novel by Anna Sewell .