TY - ADVS AU - Spielberg,Steven AU - Spielberg,Steven AU - Allen,Debbie AU - Wilson,Colin AU - Franzoni,David AU - Freeman,Morgan AU - Hawthorne,Nigel AU - Hopkins,Anthony AU - Hounsou,Djimon AU - McConaughey,Matthew AU - Paymer,David AU - Postlethwaite,Pete AU - Skarsgård,Stellan AU - Kamiński,Janusz AU - Williams,John ED - Dreamworks Pictures. ED - HBO Pictures. ED - DreamWorks Home Entertainment (Firm) TI - Amistad SN - 0783231202 U1 - 791.4372 PY - 2004/// CY - Universal City, CA PB - DreamWorks KW - 1 KW - Sickness, brutality- United States, mutilation and death,trials (Mutiny), Slave insurrections, drama, Films for the hearing impaired N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 1997; Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the events in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by the Washington, a U.S. revenue cutter. Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt; Directed by Steven Spielberg ; written by David Franzoni ; produced by Steven Spielberg, Debbie Allen, Colin Wilson ; director of photography, Janusz Kaminski ; film editor, Michael Kahn ; music by John Williams ER -