A Woman Called Moses
tv show
2 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired December 11, 1978
Genres:
Overview
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.
Miniseries
2 episodes
Air Date
December 11, 1978
Overview
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.
Cast
Cicely Tyson
as
Harriet Ross Tubman
Will Geer
as
Thomas Garrett
Robert Hooks
as
William Still
Orson Welles
as
Narrator (voice)
Jason Bernard
as
Daddy Ben Ross
John Getz
as
Stewart
James B. Sikking
as
McCracken
Clifford David
as
Doc Thompson
Mae Mercer
as
Aunt Juba
Charles Weldon
as
Shadrack Davis
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Dick Anthony Williams
as
John Tubman
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Jean Foster
as
Young Harriet Tubman