Film has been the most influential medium in the presentation of the history of slavery to the general public.
[1][2] The American film industry has had a complex relationship with slavery, and until recent decades often avoided the topic.
In 1940, The Santa Fe Trail gave a strong condemnation of abolitionist John Brown's attacks on slavery.
[5] Most Hollywood films used American settings, although Spartacus (1960) dealt with an actual slave revolt in the Roman Empire known as the Third Servile War.
[7] The Last Supper (La última cena in Spanish) was a 1976 film directed by Cuban Tomás Gutiérrez Alea about the teaching of Christianity to slaves in Cuba and emphasizes the role of ritual and revolt.