"Amistad" is a Spanish noun meaning "friendship". It may refer to:
- La Amistad, a 19th-century Spanish schooner on which kidnapped Africans rebelled and took control.
- The Amistad (1841), United States Supreme Court case deciding the fate of the captives who mutinied on the ship Amistad.
- Freedom Schooner Amistad, a recreation of the original La Amistad schooner
- Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, devoted to research about slavery, civil rights and African Americans.
- Amistad (film), a 1997 Steven Spielberg movie about the 19th century ship, events and Supreme Court case.
- The 1987 historical account by Howard Jones, Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy, on which the 1997 Steven Spielberg movie, Amistad, was based.