Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

Charles Burnett, director of the classic film “Killer of Sheep,” will develop a new film with Amazon called “Steal Away,” about the true story of Robert Smalls, who commandeered a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker and Snowfall actor Malcolm M. Mays has been tapped by Amazon Studios to write a new script for the film Steal Away about the daring theft and escape of Robert Smalls, a slave ...

Marvin Jones III is an accomplished actor, but he is stepping behind the camera to produce the feature film Defiant, which details the story of Civil War hero Robert Smalls.. Jones was present at ...

Movie review: 'Pete Smalls Is ... With “Pete Smalls Is Dead ... little too closely from “The Long Goodbye,” Raymond Chandler’s elegiac detective novel adapted into a classic by Robert ...

Amazon Studios in 2021 had plans to produce a Robert Smalls movie, but it did not get off the ground, possibly due to the hardships of the pandemic, Moore said. A different kind of movie company.

Amazon is working on a biopic on Robert Smalls, a politician, publisher, businessman and maritime pilot who was born into slavery in Beaufort and worked as a waiter at the Planters Hotel in ...

The USS Chancellorsville has been renamed the USS Robert Smalls, to honor the enslaved man who stole a Confederate battleship in the Civil War and delivered to the Union forces, loaded with weapons.