Northup was subsequently forced into slavery, an ordeal that lasted a dozen years. The screenplay was adapted by John Ridley from Northup’s own memoir of the same name, first published in 1853.

Among the extras offered on the Blu-ray will be "A Historical Portrait ... By Scott Feinberg 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen‘s big screen version of 19th century American slave Solomon Northup ...

Steve McQueen’s powerful film 12 Years a Slave will make its Blu-ray and DVD debut on a release date of March 14. If you want to watch 12 Years a Slave online streaming before that then you’re ...

By Hilary Lewis Deputy Editor, East Coast, THR.com Fox Searchlight’s 12 Years a Slave doesn’t hit theaters until Friday, but it’s already been highly praised by critics, with the film ...

The new movie 12 Years a Slave has been receiving high praise — critic David Denby recently described it in The New Yorker as "easily the greatest feature film ever made about American slavery." ...

Steve McQueen jumps with joy after accepting the Oscar for Best Picture for his work on "12 Years a Slave" Reuters Major props to the Oscars for acknowledging “12 Years a Slave” as the the ...

The opening scenes of "12 Years a Slave," Steve McQueen's searing adaptation of the true-life account of a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War South ...

It will be impossible to ever look at “Gone With the Wind’’ the same way after “12 Years a Slave,’’ a brutally powerful and emotionally devastating film that takes great pains to rip ...

12 Years a Slave is an excruciating, uncomfortable, upsetting watch, a long slog through two hours of Spanish moss and torture, of unrelenting cruelty framed in interminably long shots ...

In 12 Years a Slave, McQueen immerses viewers in the magnolia-scented hell to which Northup was exiled. You will recoil at every whiplash, feel each slur, wonder at man’s inhumanity to men and ...