The voyage of La Amistad a quest for freedom

"Chronicle of the story of the abducted Africans and their battles for freedom, first on the Amistad and then as they stood trial in a strange land, taking their case all the way to the Supreme Court with various abolitionists and former president John Quincy Adams leading the way."@en
"This documentary tells the story of the revolt aboard the slave ship La Amistad, in which Africans abducted from Sierra Leone in violation of international law took over the ship on which they were held, only to end up in the American court system. They took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, with various abolitionists and former president John Quincy Adams leading the way. Based on court documents and transcripts, letters written by the Africans and their lawyers, newspaper articles, and testimony from present-day scholars."@en
"Using cotemporary documents & iconography, a retelling of the 1839 revolt of the Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad, their subsequent apprehension and the trial by the Supreme Court which ended in their acquittal based on human rights, not civil rights."@en