| Director: | Paul Wendkos |
| Producer: | Michael Jaffe Ike Jones |
| Starring: | Cicely Tyson |
| Narrated: | Orson Welles |
| Music: | Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson |
| Cinematography: | Robert B. Hauser |
| Editor: | Stanley Frazen Frank Mazzola Elio Zarmati |
| Network: | NBC |
| Runtime: | 240 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
A Woman Called Moses is a 1978 American television miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Marcy Heidish, about the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped African American slave who led dozens of other African Americans from enslavement in the Southern United States to freedom in the Northern states and Canada.
Narrated by Orson Welles, the production was broadcast on the NBC television network on December 11 and 12, 1978. Tubman was portrayed by Cicely Tyson.
The soundtrack music was by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and soul music composer/arranger/singer Van McCoy contributed some music to the series, which was featured on a soundtrack album released by MCA Records.[1]
The miniseries was first released on VHS on September 29, 1992, followed by a DVD release on February 3, 2001. A Xenon Pictures, Walmart exclusive Blu-ray release was issued on January 15, 2019.