- Director: Paul Wendkos
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- Genre: Historical Film
- Movie Type: Biopic
- Themes: Fighting the System, Social Injustice
- Main Cast: Orson Welles
- Release Year: 1978
- Country: US
- Run Time: 200 minutes
A Woman Called Moses
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| Directed by | Paul Wendkos |
| Produced by | Henry Jaffe Michael Jaffe Ike Jones |
| Written by | Marcy Heidish (novel) Lonne Elder III (screenplay) |
| Narrated by | Orson Welles |
| Starring | Cicely Tyson |
| Music by | Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson |
| Cinematography | Robert B. Hauser |
| Editing by | Stanley Frazen Frank Mazzola Elio Zarmati |
| Distributed by | NBC |
| Release date(s) | December 11-12 1978 |
| Running time | 240 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
A Woman Called Moses is a television miniseries based on the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped African American slave who helped to organize the Underground Railroad, and who led hundreds of African Americans from enslavement in the Southern United States to freedom in the Northern states and Canada. Narrated by Orson Welles, the production was broadcast on the NBC television network on December 11 and 12 1978.
Tubman was portrayed by Emmy Award winner and Academy Award nominee Cicely Tyson.
Cast
- Cicely Tyson - Harriet Tubman
- Will Geer - Thomas Garrett
- Robert Hooks - William Still
- James Wainwright - Andrew Coleman
- Jason Bernard - Daddy Ben Ross
- Clifford David - Doc Thompson
- Judyann Elder - Bernette Wilson
- John Getz - Stewart
- Mae Mercer - Aunt Juba
- Harry Rhodes - Tavwell Robinson
- James Sikking - McCracken
- Charles Weldon - Shadrack Davis
- Dick Anthony Williams - John Tubman
- Narrated by Orson Welles
Video releases
The miniseries was first released on VHS on September 29, 1992, followed by a DVD release on February 3, 2001.
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- Lonne Elder (Author)
- Thea Musgrave (music)
- Henry Jaffe (Actor, Drama/Music)
- Cynthia Haymon
- Paul Wendkos (Director, Writer, Drama/Crime)
- Lonne Elder III (Writer, Drama)
- Tommie Young (Rock Artist)
- Thea Musgrave (Classical Artist)
- Will Geer (Actor, Drama/Western)
- Work(s) Overview (Classical Work)
- Do You Still Feel the Same Way? (1973 Album by Tommie Young)
- Do You Still Feel the Same Way? [Japan] (2003 Album by Tommie Young)
- Cynthia Haymon (Classical Musician)
- Harriet Tubman
