A Woman Called Moses
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| Directed by | Paul Wendkos |
| Produced by | Henry Jaffe Michael Jaffe Ike Jones |
| Written by | Marcy Heidish (novel) Lonne Elder III (screenplay) |
| Starring | Cicely Tyson |
| Narrated by | Orson Welles |
| Music by | Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson |
| Cinematography | Robert B. Hauser |
| Edited by | Stanley Frazen Frank Mazzola Elio Zarmati |
| Distributed by | NBC |
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240 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Woman Called Moses is a television miniseries based on the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped African American slave who helped to organize the Underground Railroad, and who led dozens of African Americans from enslavement in the Southern United States to freedom in the Northern states and Canada. Narrated by Orson Welles, the production was broadcast on the NBC television network on December 11 and 12, 1978. Tubman was portrayed by Cicely Tyson.
The soundtrack music was by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and soul music composer/arranger/singer Van McCoy contributed some music to the series, which was featured on a soundtrack album released by MCA Records.
The miniseries was first released on VHS on September 29, 1992, followed by a DVD release on February 3, 2001.
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