Charismatic Ward Allen turns his back on his plantation upbringing to make his living off the land. With his close company, freed slave Christmas Moultrie, he hunts on the rivers of Georgia, continuously challenging the law. Back on dry land, he navigates the legal system with ease, effecting important changes in hunting legislation. But when he catches the eye of a beautiful society woman he discovers a whole new challenge.< find out more...

Spielberg's aclaimed adaptation of Alice Walker's novel of a poor black girl, raped and rejected by her father, separated from her beloved sister and given into a life of domestic servitude and virtual imprisonment to her farmer husband. A bleak tale of hope and eventual liberation warmly told. find out more...