Shadrach

Year: 1998

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Harvey Keitel, Martin Sheen, Edward Bunker

Duration: 88 min

In 1935, ninety-nine-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie, and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is a violation of strict Virginia law.

Genre: Action   Drama