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The Underground Railroad (2021)

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Follow young Cora’s journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. 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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Cast & Crew

Director
  • Profile picture of Thuso Mbedu
    Cora Randall Thuso Mbedu
  • Profile picture of Chase W. Dillon
    Homer Chase W. Dillon
  • Profile picture of Joel Edgerton
    Arnold Ridgeway Joel Edgerton

Videos

Poster for Miniseries

Miniseries

2021

10 episodes

Season 1 of The Underground Railroad premiered on May 13, 2021

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Keywords

  • slavery
  • historical
  • atmospheric
  • underground railroad
  • escape from slavery
  • historical revisionism