Talk:Solomon Northup's Odyssey

A fact from Solomon Northup's Odyssey appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 February 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that director Gordon Parks chose to shoot the 1984 television film Solomon Northup's Odyssey in the Deep South where the kidnapped black man Solomon Northup worked in slavery?

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References to use

TV review at The New York Times

~~A Hungry Heart: A Memoir~~

References to use. Erik (talk | contribs) 03:32, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination

Free view of film

In the external links section the following was written:

Solomon Northup's Odyssey Complete Film on-line (free of charge)

Source: Solomon Northup's Odyssey on Freebase, licensed under CC-BY)

From content on article:

This film is offered for viewing free of charge on this site. It is NOT for a fee, and it is NOT a link to YouTube.

Please make sure of your facts before reverting and if you're too blind to see this yourself, don't expect me to answer your messages. Keep your junk off my talk-page!

I went to the link given and clicked every link I could find there and like Pinkbeast I was only able to find links to Amazon and Youtube. Can someone point more directly to where this film is available free online (and for world wide access and not US only)?-- 🍺 Antiqueight ^confer 20:00, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Now I find a link to http://www.fandor.com/films/solomon_northups_odyssey which tells me "not available in your region". Pinkbeast (talk) 00:06, 21 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes - I saw that - but it's also only a free trial for a pay per view service or similar. So I couldn't actually watch it (not available) and it would become fee paying presumably after one film...-- 🍺 Antiqueight ^confer 00:24, 21 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not trying to claim it is an appropriate link - I don't think it is since it is not universally available, in any event. I'm just trying to work out what User:Mike Hayes is (so rudely) trying to say exists. Pinkbeast (talk) 15:55, 21 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ah- then very possibly it is available on fandor (- but if so a link directly there would have been better? Otherwise I can't find any link on that page that goes there.)-- 🍺 Antiqueight ^confer 16:13, 21 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]