Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom was released on February 25, 1985.

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom was directed by Barry Crane.

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom has a runtime of 1h 53m.

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom was produced by Yanna Kroyt Brandt.

At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners fled, and the 10,000 blacks who lived there, almost all of whom were slaves, were freed in the first test of President Abraham Lincoln's dream of emancipation. Charlotte Forten, a 21-year-old educated black woman, helped the freed slaves to begin to build a new society. That experience forms the plot of this drama, based on Charlotte Forten's journals, which was telecast on "American Playhouse."

The key characters in Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom are Blind Lily (Mary Alice), Rev. Mansfield French (Ned Beatty), Laura Towne (Carla Borelli).

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom is a Drama, History, TV Movie film.