• Director(s)

    Antoine Fuqua

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, War

  • Approx. running minutes

    132m

  • Cast

    Will Smith, Ben Foster, Mustafa Shakir, Gilbert Owuor, Michael Luwoye, Charmaine Bingwa, David Denman, Paul Ben-Victor, Aaron Moten, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Grant Harvey, Steven Ogg

Film

Emancipation

strong violence, injury detail, racism, brief sexual threat

EMANCIPATION is a US historical drama, set in the 1860s during the American Civil War, in which a man escapes from slavery in Louisiana and makes a perilous journey north to join the Union Army.…

EMANCIPATION is a US historical drama, set in the 1860s during the American Civil War, in which a man escapes from slavery in Louisiana and makes a perilous journey north to join the Union Army.

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violence
Scenes of violence are motivated by racism, with enslaved people whipped, beaten and shot by white men. In one scene, a Black man has the mark of his slave owner burned onto his cheek. Other strong scenes include a slave owner cutting the throat of a man before decapitating him; significant bloodshed occurs during the attack, but process detail of the decapitation is brief and framed from a distance. There is also strong battle violence depicting soldiers shot in the head, stabbed and blown up by cannon fire.
discrimination
Racist language is used throughout the film, with enslaved people frequently referred to as 'n****r', 'animals' and 'boy'. There is also use of the term 'negro'. Such language occurs within a clear historical context and their use is not condoned. Racist behaviour as well as visual references to the historical period occur throughout the film: a man's body hangs from a tree in the aftermath of a lynching; decapitated heads on wooden stakes line a road; a man caught trying to escape is dragged along behind a horse; a man is taunted by a barking dog and is told to beg for meat on his hands and knees. In another scene, we see a mass open grave in which several corpses are being covered over with lime.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A slave owner comments that a slave's teenage daughter is of age and infers his designs for her.
injury detail
There is focus on blood and injuries sustained in battle, such as a soldier with an intestinal wound, or soldiers with missing limbs being treated in a field hospital. There are also injuries that bare the marks of slavery, for example, a man's back covered in healed scars as a result of repeated whippings; the photograph documenting the real subject and injuries from which these scenes are inspired is also shown at the end of the film. Among other bloody scenes is brief focus on a pig carcass being butchered.
There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k'), accompanied by other milder terms ('ass', 'son of a bitch', 'hell', 'God' and 'damn'). There are scenes of threat in which a man who has escaped enslavement is relentlessly pursued through swampy land by men on horseback and their dogs; in one sequence he is attacked by an alligator. There are also upsetting and emotional scenes, such as families being separated from each other by slave owners.

  • Director(s)

    Antoine Fuqua

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, War

  • Approx. running minutes

    132m

  • Cast

    Will Smith, Ben Foster, Mustafa Shakir, Gilbert Owuor, Michael Luwoye, Charmaine Bingwa, David Denman, Paul Ben-Victor, Aaron Moten, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Grant Harvey, Steven Ogg

strong violence, injury detail, racism, brief sexual threat
Classified Date:
30/11/2022
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Altitude Film Distribution
violence
Scenes of violence are motivated by racism, with enslaved people whipped, beaten and shot by white men. In one scene, a Black man has the mark of his slave owner burned onto his cheek. Other strong scenes include a slave owner cutting the throat of a man before decapitating him; significant bloodshed occurs during the attack, but process detail of the decapitation is brief and framed from a distance. There is also strong battle violence depicting soldiers shot in the head, stabbed and blown up by cannon fire.
discrimination
Racist language is used throughout the film, with enslaved people frequently referred to as 'n****r', 'animals' and 'boy'. There is also use of the term 'negro'. Such language occurs within a clear historical context and their use is not condoned. Racist behaviour as well as visual references to the historical period occur throughout the film: a man's body hangs from a tree in the aftermath of a lynching; decapitated heads on wooden stakes line a road; a man caught trying to escape is dragged along behind a horse; a man is taunted by a barking dog and is told to beg for meat on his hands and knees. In another scene, we see a mass open grave in which several corpses are being covered over with lime.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A slave owner comments that a slave's teenage daughter is of age and infers his designs for her.
injury detail
There is focus on blood and injuries sustained in battle, such as a soldier with an intestinal wound, or soldiers with missing limbs being treated in a field hospital. There are also injuries that bare the marks of slavery, for example, a man's back covered in healed scars as a result of repeated whippings; the photograph documenting the real subject and injuries from which these scenes are inspired is also shown at the end of the film. Among other bloody scenes is brief focus on a pig carcass being butchered.
There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k'), accompanied by other milder terms ('ass', 'son of a bitch', 'hell', 'God' and 'damn'). There are scenes of threat in which a man who has escaped enslavement is relentlessly pursued through swampy land by men on horseback and their dogs; in one sequence he is attacked by an alligator. There are also upsetting and emotional scenes, such as families being separated from each other by slave owners.
strong violence, injury detail, racism, brief sexual threat
Classified Date:
30/01/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Apple
violence
Scenes of violence are motivated by racism, with enslaved people whipped, beaten and shot by white men. In one scene, a Black man has the mark of his slave owner burned onto his cheek. Other strong scenes include a slave owner cutting the throat of a man before decapitating him; significant bloodshed occurs during the attack, but process detail of the decapitation is brief and framed from a distance. There is also strong battle violence depicting soldiers shot in the head, stabbed and blown up by cannon fire.
discrimination
Racist language is used throughout the film, with enslaved people frequently referred to as 'n****r', 'animals' and 'boy'. There is also use of the term 'negro'. Such language occurs within a clear historical context and their use is not condoned. Racist behaviour as well as visual references to the historical period occur throughout the film: a man's body hangs from a tree in the aftermath of a lynching; decapitated heads on wooden stakes line a road; a man caught trying to escape is dragged along behind a horse; a man is taunted by a barking dog and is told to beg for meat on his hands and knees. In another scene, we see a mass open grave in which several corpses are being covered over with lime.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A slave owner comments that a slave's teenage daughter is of age and infers his designs for her.
injury detail
There is focus on blood and injuries sustained in battle, such as a soldier with an intestinal wound, or soldiers with missing limbs being treated in a field hospital. There are also injuries that bare the marks of slavery, for example, a man's back covered in healed scars as a result of repeated whippings; the photograph documenting the real subject and injuries from which these scenes are inspired is also shown at the end of the film. Among other bloody scenes is brief focus on a pig carcass being butchered.
There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k'), accompanied by other milder terms ('ass', 'son of a bitch', 'hell', 'God' and 'damn'). There are scenes of threat in which a man who has escaped enslavement is relentlessly pursued through swampy land by men on horseback and their dogs; in one sequence he is attacked by an alligator. There are also upsetting and emotional scenes, such as families being separated from each other by slave owners.
Classified Date:
29/11/2022
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Altitude Film Distribution
Classified Date:
18/11/2022
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Altitude Film Distribution

  • Classified date

    30/01/2023

  • Language

    English