Rhetta Greene

An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.

This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born free man who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to play for them. However, that is not their intention; they have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. Now he has to endure the hardships that he has been spared because of his status as a free man. And his family who don't know what happened to him is searching for him but where do they go? And Solomon also wishes to let them know where he is so that they could get him but unfortunately no one believes his story or is willing to help him.

Un film sur la vie de Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter (1888-1949), un génie musical, mais aussi un meurtrier, qui a passé une bonne partie de sa vie aux travaux forcés. Autodidacte, il est devenu un maître de la guitare à 12 cordes en plus d'être un excellent chanteur. Il a laissé aussi un paquet de compositions qui ont influencé le Blues, le Folk et même la musique Pop.

When his teenage son is shot by the Houston police following a stolen van chase, his father undertakes a tireless investigation into the truth and uncovers the fact that the gun found with the boy's body was a "throwdown," a weapon planted by the cops.