Frederick Douglass: An American Life (1985)
This director's cut of the William Greaves' documentary short film dramatizes the life and deeds of the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
Top billed cast
- Hugh MorganFrederick Douglass
Phyllis Yvonne StickneyAnna Douglass
Ebony Jo-AnnHarriet Tubman
Stephanie BerryRosetta Douglass
Janet EllisJulia Griffith- Lee MooreJohn Brown
- William CurtisWilliam Lloyd Garrison
- Jacqueline ScatesHelen Pitts Douglass
- R.A. MontgomeryFrederick (Young Man)
- Don PlumleyHern
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