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The Underground Railroad is an American historical drama television miniseries 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.
Pages in category "Films about the Underground Railroad" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. H.
Netflix is an American global Internet streaming-on-demand media provider that has distributed a number of original streaming television shows, including original series, specials, miniseries, and documentaries and films. Netflix's original productions also include continuations of canceled series from other networks, as well as licensing or co ...
The Jewish Underground (Hebrew: המחתרת היהודית HaMakhteret HaYehudit), [1] or in abbreviated form, simply Makhteret, [2] was a radical right-wing fundamentalist organization [3] considered terrorist by Israel, [4] [5] formed by prominent members of the Israeli political movement Gush Emunim that existed from 1979 to 1984. [6]
The Underground Railroad is a historical fiction novel by American author Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday in 2016. The alternate history [1] novel tells the story of Cora, a slave in the Antebellum South during the 19th century, who makes a bid for freedom from her Georgia plantation by following the Underground Railroad, which the novel depicts as an actual rail transport system with ...
Narrated by actor Clark Johnson, the four-part series profiles the history of the Underground Railroad, through which escaped African-American slaves from the Southern United States escaped to freedom in the northeastern U.S. or Canada, [2] focusing in part on the newest archaeological and scientific discoveries that have expanded the depth of ...
Depicts the destruction of Polish Jewry by the Nazi onslaught, includes rare footage of Jewish life in early 20th century Poland. 1967 United States The Diary of Anne Frank: Alex Segal: TV movie: Harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. 1969 France
Levi Coffin Jr. (October 28, 1798 – September 16, 1877) was an American Quaker, Republican, abolitionist, farmer, businessman and humanitarian. An active leader of the Underground Railroad in Indiana and Ohio, some unofficially called Coffin the "President of the Underground Railroad", estimating that three thousand fugitive slaves passed through his care.