Amazing Grace (2006)

Occasionally chronicling the often dry nature of legislative discourse, this film follows the life of William Wilberforce, portrayed by Ioan Gruffudd, who repeatedly tried to pass anti-slavery laws through the British parliament. Despite the strains it caused on his health, he continued to push forward on what was at the time a very unpopular idea due to the number of vested interests various MPs had in continuing the slave trade. A little slow in its narrative, the film doesn’t shy from providing evidence of the horrors of slavery even as witnessed from far across the ocean and Gruffudd offers a sympathetic character in the fight for abolition.