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1 day ago · 12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
1 day ago · 12 Years a Slave (2013) Under Steve McQueen's direction, this intense film is based on Solomon Northup's autobiography. It recounts Northup's kidnapping and brutal enslavement, offering a stark ...
1 day ago · Ben-Hur is a 2016 epic historical drama film directed by Timur Bekmambetov and written by Keith Clarke and John Ridley.It is the fifth film adaptation of the 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace following the 1907 silent short film, the 1925 silent film, the Academy Award-winning 1959 film and the 2003 animated film; it is the third version produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
2 days ago · Lupita Nyong'o told PEOPLE in an exclusive conversation how she didn't want to trip while accepting her Best Supporting Actress award for '12 Years a Slave' at the 2014 Oscars like Jennifer ...
4 days ago · Following the 2013 film 12 Years a Slave, actress Lupita Nyong'o didn't have the urge to take on a lead role in a box office hit. To promote her new movie, A Quiet Place: Day One, Nyong'o, 41 ...
4 days ago · A decade ago, Lupita Nyong’o earned an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her debut role in “12 Years a Slave”. Now at 41, the “A Quiet Place: Day One” star revealed that despite skyrocketing...
1 day ago · A major center of slave trade to the Middle east was central Asia, where the Bukhara slave trade had supplied slaves to the Middle East for thousands of years from antiquity until the 1870s. A slave market for captured Russian and Persian slaves was the Khivan slave trade centred in the Central Asian khanate of Khiva.
