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Freedom Road screenplay by David Zelag Goodman, producer: Zev Braun. videocassette, director: Jan Kadar. Film Editing by Anne Goursaud. 2 cassettes (VHS)(186 min.), sd, col, 1/2 in. Worldvision Home Video, Worldvision Enterprises Inc, Zev Braun Inc. (1979 TV color) Summary: Muhammad Ali plays an emancipated slave fighting for civil rights in this 1979 TV-movie. It's set after the Civil War on the sprawling Carwell plantation in rural South Carolina, the birthplace of an illiterate runaway named Gideon Jackson (Ali), who served as a Union soldier and has now come home. A self-effacing yet commanding man, Jackson earns the respect and trust of his Carwell peers, who elect him under Reconstruction law as a: delegate to rewrite the state constitution in Charleston. There, the country bumpkin gets a lesson in politics and teaches himself to read and write. Both educations prove valuable to Gideon as he sets out on a hard-fought struggle against intolerance and injustice that's marked by an uphill battle to buy land - and an uneasy alliance with a neighboring. share-cropper (Kris Kristofferson). Adapted from Howard Fast's novel. Gideon Jackson Muhammad Ali Abner Lait Kris Kristofferson President Grant John McLiam Sheriff Bentley Fred Covington Jeff Jackson William Allen Young Ellen Jean Renee Foster Francis Cardozo Ron O'Neal Stephen Holms Edward Herrmann Rachel Jackson Barbara-o Jones Jason Hugar Sonny Shroyer Brother Peter Sonny Jim Gaines Marion Jefferson Ernest Dixon Allenby Joel Fluellen Trooper: Bill Mackey Hannibal Earl D.A. Smith Lawyer Greene Howard Brunner Went Howland Chamberlin Narrator Ossie Davis