Drum
"MANDINGO lit the fuse... DRUM is the explosion!"
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
"MANDINGO lit the fuse... DRUM is the explosion!"
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
Warren Oates
Hammond Maxwell
Pam Grier
Regine
Ken Norton
Drum
Isela Vega
Marianna
Yaphet Kotto
Blase
John Colicos
Bernard DeMarigny
Fiona Lewis
Augusta Chauvet
Paula Kelly
Rachel
Royal Dano
Zeke Montgomery
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. He also buys his father a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and train as a prize-fighter.
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as a way to find his first love again.
At the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England.
Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. When these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.
In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.
College freshman Abby tries to distance herself from her dark past while resisting her attraction to bad boy Travis.