An ex-Union Army sergeant leads a group of black freed slaves to their homesteads in the West.

With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous, pistol-packing "preacher," who join forces to take on...

Sequel to Roots, depicting the history of African Americans since the Civil War to this day, told by tracing the lineage of one man.