12 Years a Slave (2013)

MORE4, 9.00PM ★★★★★

 Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Solomon Northrup, the kidnapped slave whose true account of life on a Louisiana plantation in the 1840s inspired John Ridley’s Oscar-winning screenplay. Directed by Steve Mcqueen, this masterpiece is both devastatingly shocking and an important film and widely described as the best film that has yet been made about American slavery. Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong’o co-star