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Frederick Douglass: An American Life

198533mMovieHistoryDrama

This director's cut of the William Greaves' documentary short film dramatizes the life and deeds of the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

DirectorWilliam Greaves
WritersLou Potter·William Greaves
ProducersWilliam Greaves·Tim Radford

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Cast · Directed by William Greaves

HM
Hugh Morgan
Frederick Douglass
PSPhyllis Yvonne Stickney
Phyllis Yvonne Stickney
Anna Douglass
EJEbony Jo-Ann
Ebony Jo-Ann
Harriet Tubman
SBStephanie Berry
Stephanie Berry
Rosetta Douglass
JEJanet Ellis
Janet Ellis
Julia Griffith
LM
Lee Moore
John Brown
WC
William Curtis
William Lloyd Garrison
JS
Jacqueline Scates
Helen Pitts Douglass
RM
R.A. Montgomery
Frederick (Young Man)
DP
Don Plumley
Hern
CR
Charles Reid
Abraham Lincoln
DJ
Daniel Wooten Jr.
Frederick (Little Boy)

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Frederick Douglass: An American Life isn't streaming anywhere in Canada yet.

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Frederick Douglass: An American Life hasn't started streaming in Canada yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around February 19, 1985. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.