Emperor

About Emperor

An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.

Emperor is a 2020 history war film directed by Mark Amin.

Dayo Okeniyi appears as Shields Green, Bruce Dern as Levi Coffin, James Cromwell as John Brown, and Kat Graham as Delores. It runs 99 minutes and was released in August 2020.

The screenplay is by Mark Amin and Pat Charles.

TMDB voters put it at 7.6 out of 10 across 101 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.