Name: The Underground Railroad
Genre: Drama, History

The Underground Railroad Episode 1.01 Chapter 1: Georgia

The Underground Railroad Episode 1.01 Chapter 1: Georgia

Episode Premiere

May 14, 2021

Genre

Drama,History

Production Company

Plan B Entertainment, Pastel Productions

Official Site

https://www.amazon.com/The-Underground-Railroad/dp/B08XC2DV8N

Information

Episode Premiere

May 14, 2021

Genre

Drama,History

Period

2021 - Now

Production Co

Plan B Entertainment, Pastel Productions

Distributor

Amazon

Official Site

https://www.amazon.com/The-Underground-Railroad/dp/B08XC2DV8N

Cast and Crew

Director

Barry Jenkins

Screenwriter

Barry Jenkins

Main Cast

Thuso Mbedu
Chase W. Dillon
Aaron Pierre
Joel Edgerton as Ridgeway
Justice Leak
Damon Herriman
William Jackson Harper
Amber Gray
Lily Rabe
Benjamin Walker
Will Poulter
Peter Mullan

Synopsis

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. Limited series premiere.

From Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, "The Underground Railroad" is a new series that chronicles Cora Randallâ€™s desperate bid for freedom in the Antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad beneath the Southern soil.