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Based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, 12 Years a Slave is joined in the Best Film category by Alfonso Cuarón's sci - fi thriller Gravity and Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis, a melancholic comedy set in the»60s New York folk scene.

Based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, 12 Years a Slave is joined in the Best Film category by Alfonso Cuarón's sci - fi thriller Gravity and Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside...

It sounds like it'll be one of his more unsympathetic characters, of a slave owner who brutalizes Ejiofor's character, a free man kidnapped and forced into the titular dozen years of enslavement, before a Canadian lawyer (Fassbender) helps him gain his freedom.

His new film will tell the true story of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped in New York and sold into slavery in the South in 1841.

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By the time you've completed watching the staggering, true tale of Solomon Northup — a free black man in the pre-Civil War American North who was kidnapped, taken from his family and sold into slavery for 12 years — you'll be shaken to your very core.

Men can not free themselves, just as a kidnapped victim is not free to release himself, but must wait for the ransom to be paid.

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This year's Oscar award for best picture went to «12 Years a Slave,» the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man kidnapped into bondage in the antebellum South.

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They include men who have intentions of sexual assaults on unsuspecting women, and individuals, couples or free dating site groups who may wish to lure you, be you male or female, halfway around the world in order rob you, kidnap you, enslave you or worse.

Synopsis: In the years before the Civil War, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery i...

Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, written by John Ridley, follows the story of Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free man living in New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South.

It's based on a true story that is shocking even for antebellum America, of a free man from upstate New York, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South.

Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup (as told to David Wilson) and adapted for the screen by John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave sees an affluent black American — a violinist and family man born free in New York state - pitched into a waking nightmare when he's kidnapped by slavers in 1841.

12 Years A Slave is based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man in the North, and a skilled carpenter and fiddler, who was lured to Washington, D.C. by a pair of circus promoters in 1841, then kidnapped and sold into slavery in New Orleans.

The film «12 Years a Slave» is based on the true story of a free black man who was kidnapped into slavery in the pre-Civil War American South.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — Many sequences in Steve McQueen's new movie, «12 Years a Slave» — the true story of a free black man kidnapped in 1841 and sold to Southern plantation owners — were emotionally exhausting to film.

The epic narrative about slavery stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as a free African American man from the north who is kidnapped and sold as a slave, while Benedict Cumberbatch plays the plantation master in Louisiana who purchases him.

A fantasy adventure written by Mark Bomback (Live Free or Die Hard), telling a story set in motion when a princess is kidnapped, threatening a long - standing peace between men and giants.

Steve McQueen's visceral, violent story of a free black man kidnapped into servitude in the 19th - century U.S. South was named best picture.

The movie is based on the real life and writings of Solomon Northrup, a free man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery from 1841 - 53.

Based on the true story of Solomon Northup and helmed by the director behind «Hunger» and «Shame,» the film follows an African American free man who in 1841 was kidnapped and forced into slavery.

12 Years a Slave: Powerful does not begin to describe this Steve McQueen production about a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the 1800's.

Chiwetel Ejiofor plays the Solomon Northup, the free man who was kidnapped in the north and sold into slavery in the south where he survived for 12 years before he was able to return home, with Lupita Nyong» o as the young, abused female slave Patsey and a supporting cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Sarah Paulson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Alfre Woodard, Michael Kenneth Williams, and Brad Pitt (who was also a producer).

It is based on a memoir by Solomon Northup, a free man from Saratoga, New York, who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.

The megastar is gearing up to produce and play a supporting role in «Twelve Years A Slave,» directed by «Shame» helmer Steve McQueen, and according to Variety, he's bringing along McNairy, with the actor set to play a circus employee responsible for the kidnap of a free African - American man (to be played by the great Chiwetel Ejiofor), who ends up in slavery for the decade - and - a-bit of the title.

McQueen descends into this maelstrom to tell the true story of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man who was drugged, kidnapped and sold into slavery.

Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery.

The film is a shattering experience — for actors and audience — as we are dragged into the abyss of slavery through the documented real life experience of a free black man in upstate NY who was kidnapped from his family in the middle of his life, and enslaved in the south.

Now that «12 Years a Slave» has won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA for Best Picture, more people will learn the story of how a black free man living in New York was kidnapped in the nation's capitol in 1841, sold into slavery, and struggled 12 years to survive until his ordeal finally ended.

In 1841, he was tricked into going to Washington DC with two white men for work where he was instead kidnapped and sold to slavery despite there being laws to protect free African - Americans.

12 Years a Slave is adapted by screenwriter and novelist John Ridley from the 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup, a black man born free in New York state, tricked, drugged and kidnapped in Washington DC and then sold in chains into slavery in the south.

The film stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and tells the true story of an educated, free black man living in 1853 New York who was kidnapped and forced into slavery in the south.

Based on the 1853 autobiography of Solomon Northrup, 12 Years a Slave stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as the married and educated free black man living in New York who was kidnapped by two men and put into a slave pen where he lived twelve years under forced slavery.

One of the films for 2013 that I'm most intrigued by is Steve McQueen's Twelve Years A Slave, based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup, a free man living in New York during the mid-1800's that was kidnapped and sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War.

One of the films for 2013 that I'm most intrigued by is Steve McQueen's Twelve Years A Slave, based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup, a free man living in New York during the mid-1800's that was kidnapped and sold...

He wrote it after the Civil War, but it's about a guy who was a free black man in New York, and he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in New Orleans.

Twelve Years a Slave is the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man and resident of New York, who was kidnapped in 1841and sold into slavery.

Armed with an iron frying pan, Tiffany joins the Wee Free Men, who make her their leader in order to rescue her little brother, one of the young people kidnapped by the queen of Fairyland.

He begins the game wallowing in a cell in the Tower of London, but a guardian appears to help free him — before being kidnapped by a mysterious scarred man.

Shaken to His Roots; EXCLUSIVESolomon Northup Was a Free American Black Man Kidnapped and Held as a Slave for 12 YEARS.