Title from container. Wide screen. Special features: Audio commentary; Featurettes; Seleted scens and more! Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program in 2021. Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon, Joel Edgerton.
Summary:
A monumental reimagining of American history, Barry Jenkins's adaptation of Colson Whitehead₂s Pulitzer Prize₆winning 2016 novel is a harrowing and rhapsodic journey through a still-echoing past. Weaving together historical fiction with moments of magical realism, The Underground Railroad is a full sensory immersion into the world of Cora, who, fleeing slavery, embarks on a treacherous quest for freedom and is menaced by violence, supported by a clandestine community fighting for liberation, and haunted by the people she loses along the way. With images of searing power and stirring poetry, Jenkins delivers an epic saga of survival and resilience that pushes the limited-series format to new heights of cinematic transcendence.
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