Emperor 2020 Movie

An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green. More details

Directors

Mark Amin

Cast

Ben Robson James Cromwell Kat Graham Bruce Dern Mykelti Williamson James Le Gros

Tags

biography drama history slave slavery escaped slave runaway slave john brown character frederick douglass character shields green character plantation chase pursuit harper's ferry west virginia virginia the state charleston south carolina bank robber rifle underground railroad running shooting murder father son relationship husband wife relationship murder of wife bounty hunter death of wife hanging scaffolding branding hung upside down church explosion gunfire battle shootout cross freedom wound horse horse riding murderess wanted poster african american black american man with a beard mustached man n word mute man bare chested male man in a bathtub reference to abraham lincoln abolitionist old woman woods swamp wading in water gambling card playing mother son relationship american civil war year 1859 prologue ends with text photographs during closing credits boy boy reads a book baby singer singing hiding false accusation of rape flashback torch reference to god love outlaw greensboro north carolina cage man in a cage death reference to boston massachusetts snake snake crawls over a man reference to texas sleeping repeated scene reference to canada handshake militia reference to james buchanan pipe smoking woman hits a man woman shoots a man woman murders a man kicked in the crotch knife nightmare cauterizing a wound campfire american south man wrapped in a towel binoculars underwater scene swimming underwater crying man hiding behind a tree screaming man church bell church bell tower dead body newspaper newspaper headline running for one's life lassoing a man food eating begins with narration maryland lieutenant colonel bunk beds fort reference to the declaration of independence american flag reference to thomas jefferson equality hit on the back of the head counting with one's fingers man uses a cane hit in the face stabbing stabbed with a bayonet bayonet money hiding underwater reference to a prince reference to a king father carries his son over his shoulder subjective camera carrying a dead body on a horse reading illiteracy kiss crying boy wounded boy back wound candle pistol pointing a gun at someone shot in the chest reward brother brother relationship man sits in a tree theft family relationships mirror looking at oneself in a mirror seed scene during opening credits holding hands falling to the ground man with long hair horse and wagon horse and carriage mother talks to her baby son fight lantern worrying reading a book aunt floating log hiding inside a hollowed out log son dies in his father's arms blood covered wagon noose shot in the leg shooting through a wall tongue cut out robert e. lee character pig flash forward father son reunion year 1890 new york city catacombs capture battering ram gate cannon revisionist history uprising shootout in a church jumping from height jumping into a river publisher river knocking on a door sleeping on a church pew blood on a horse younger version of character fugitive title spoken by character

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