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The Underground Railroad is an American historical drama limited television series created and directed by Barry Jenkins based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Colson Whitehead. The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on May 14, 2021.
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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When Caesar convinces Cora to escape from Randall plantation in Georgia their lives are irrevocably changed. They discover the impossible in an underground railroad which takes them on an unexpected journey and reveals the true face of America.
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.
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.
After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.
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Jul 2, 2021 · Episode 1 Chapter 1: Georgia. The Underground Railroad Premiere Recap: It’s Time Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel starts off running with a difficult, alluring first...
