Uncle Tom's Cabin is a 1987 American made-for-television drama film directed by Stan Lathan, and starring Avery Brooks, Bruce Dern, Phylicia Rashad and Edward Woodward. It is based on the 1852 novel of the same name by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Producer Edgar Scherick there was opposition to filming the novel from some black groups until the NAACP spoke up in favor of it. "We made it for little money in Mississippi in terrible heat."