Release Date

11 Dec, 1978

Runtime

01:37: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

2/1

Synopsis

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 dozens of African Americans from enslavement in the Southern United States to freedom in the Northern states and Canada.

Original Title

A Woman Called Moses

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Miniseries

11 Dec, 1978

A Woman Called Moses stars Cicely Tyson as real-life escaped slave Harriet Tubman. At the risk of recapture, Tubman helped organize the Underground Railroad, which enabled hundreds of enslaved African Americans to make their way to the freedom of the North. Adding to the tension are Harriet's frequent epileptic fainting spells. Orson Welles narrates this adaptation of Marcy Heidish's novel.

Actors

Cicely Tyson

Will Geer

Robert Hooks

Orson Welles

Jason Bernard

John Getz

James B. Sikking

Clifford David

Mae Mercer

Charles Weldon

Dick Anthony Williams

Jean Foster

Crew

Michael Jaffe

Paul Wendkos

Lonne Elder III

Henry Jaffe

Marcy Heidish

Ike Jones

Mitchell L. Gamson

Ron Veto

Terry Gekler

Stanley Frazen

Richard E. Butler

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

David Nicksay

Erik Cord