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From Academy Award® winner Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead comes the Amazon Original limited series "The Underground Railroad". Premiering May...
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Apr 16, 2021 · From Academy Award® winner Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, "The Underground Railroad" chronicles Cora Randall’s desperate bid for freedom in...
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Apr 15, 2021 · After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad beneath the Southern soil.
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The Underground Railroad: With Thuso Mbedu, Chase Dillon, Joel Edgerton, Reshonnah Harvey. A young woman named Cora makes an amazing discovery during her attempt to break free from slavery in the deep south.
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- 2021-05-14
- Drama, Fantasy, History
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May 14, 2021 · A vicious slave catcher named Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton) tracks her, but “The Underground Railroad” is more than a mere chase story. The overall arc of Cora’s narrative ebbs and flows through viciously realistic violence and into more dreamlike fantasies and back again.
May 24, 2021 · The Underground Railroad on Amazon Prime is a harrowing drama about slavery that has echoes of the groundbreaking saga Roots from the 1970s. It starts on a plantation in the pre-Civil War Georgia, where slave Cora Randall (Thuso Mbedu) is trapped and desperate to escape.
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A monumental reimagining of American history, Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 2016 novel is a harrowing and rhapsodic journey through a still-echoing past.