Shadrach

In 1935, ninety-nine-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie, and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is a violation of strict Virginia law.

Shadrach is a 1998 drama movie directed by Susanna Styron, starring Martin Sheen, Ginnie Randall, John Franklin Sawyer. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.4/10 from 1,439 votes and runs 1h 28m.