Hollywood cinema during the late 20th century started to re-create the historical events of African-American’s past, make it a historical films genre, and deliver the history of Amistad case about Mende’s mutiny in Amistad film. The film becomes receptive to addressing another side of Africans slavery history in the western country. To understand the historical event, the researcher sees it through the New Historicism’s lens as an approach of this research. This research uses a qualitative method through collecting the data from audio-visual materials, document analysis, and published interviews to answer the research questions. The research questions of this research are; first, how is the comparison of the Amistad case event in the Amistad film and historical records. Secondly, why does the Amistad film portray a different angle of the Amistad case. Seeking the answers, the researcher compares the representations of the past event and found the contradictory the Amistad film and the historical. The researcher found three aspects discusses in this research, the records and portrayals of Adams’s closing speech, abolitionists and Joadson fictional character, and Mende’s sailing back to Africa after the case resolved. The results of this research indicate that Amistad film presents events about the Amistad case differently to opposed the historical records and get positive results through adding moral values from historical events.