Steve McQueen's slave drama stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Benedict Cumberbatch. By Todd McCarthy 12 Years a Slave Night - H 2013 Northup published a memoir of his 12-year ...

In the film "12 Years a Slave," Kelsey Scott, as Anne Northup, ... as Brown, and Taran Killam, right, as Hamilton, the two men who lured Solomon from Saratoga to play the violin at a circus in ...

12 Years a Slave starts its true story in 1841 when Solomon Northup (British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor), a violin player living free in New York with his wife and children, gets tricked into a job in ...

JEFFREY BROWN: John Ridley wrote the screenplay for "12 Years a Slave." He's also written for television, authored several novels, and directed two films of his own.

In 1841, Solomon Northup, a free black man living in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., fell for a fake job offer from two men who lured him to Washington, D.C., drugged him and beat him unconscious, then ...

In 12 Years a Slave, that voice belongs to Brad Pitt (one of the film’s executive producers) as the Canadian surveyor and abolitionist Bass. He tells Epps, “If you don’t treat them as humans ...

The 'SNL' alum played Abram Hamilton in the 2013 Oscar-winning film. By Carly Thomas Associate Editor Taran Killam may have been proud to star in the Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave, but that ...

To connect with the SNL guest hosts, Killam brought up his work on 12 Years a Slave, where he played Abram Hamilton, one of the two men who kidnapped Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and forced ...

Telluride Film Review: ’12 Years a Slave’ This epic account of an unbreakable soul makes even Scarlett O’Hara’s struggles seem petty by comparison.

Read an excerpt from Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup: My friends, several times during the afternoon, entered drinking saloons, and called for liquor. They were by no means in the habit ...