| West Indies | |
| Director: | Med Hondo |
| Screenplay: | Med Hondo |
| Based On: | Les Negriers by |
| Music: | Georges Rabol Franck Valmont |
| Cinematography: | François Catonné |
| Editing: | Youcef Tobni |
| Runtime: | 110 minutes |
| Country: | France Algeria Mauritania |
| Language: | French |
| Budget: | US$ 1.35 million |
West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (French: West Indies ou les Nègres marrons de la liberté) is a 1979 Algerian-Mauritanian French-language musical drama film directed by Med Hondo.[1] The plot of the film was adapted from a novel titled Les Negriers (The Slavers), written by Daniel Boukman. The film is highly regarded as a landmark film in the history of African cinema as it was made with a lavish budget of US$1.35 million, making it as one of the biggest budgeted African films ever to be made.[2] Against the backdrop of the colonial West Indies, which was under French imperialism,[3] [4] the drama was set on a slave ship.[5] The film had its theatrical release in 1979.