- 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
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A Woman Called Moses |




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| 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 | |
| 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.
The miniseries was first released on VHS on September 29, 1992, followed by a DVD release on February 3, 2001.
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