Unchained Memories is a 2003 documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed

during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project and preserved in the WPA Slave
Narrative Collection. This HBO film interpretation directed by Ed Bell and Thomas Lennon[2] is a
compilation of slave narratives, narrated by actors, emulating the original conversation with the
interviewer. The slave narratives may be the most accurate in terms of the everyday activities of
the enslaved, serving as personal memoirs of more than two thousand former slaves. The
documentary depicts the emotions of the slaves and what they endured. The "Master" had the
opportunity to sell, trade, or kill the enslaved, for retribution should one slave not obey.