Manderlay

In this drama set in the 1930s a traveling gang of armed gunman stop at a plantation in the American Deep South where they discover that black people are still being kept as slaves, more than 70 years after the Civil War. They decide to stay around for a while as they engage a lawyer to help free the people being held in slavery. Their good intentions lead to unsuspected disaster, however, in this dark and tense psychological film.