From Academy Award® winner Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad chronicles Cora Randall’s (newcomer Thuso Mbedu) 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 full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.

Director/Showrunner:
Barry Jenkins

Based on the Novel by:
Colson Whitehead

Executive Producers:
Barry Jenkins
Adele Romanski
Mark Ceryak
Brad Pitt
Dede Gardner
Jeremy Kleiner
Colson Whitehead
Richard Heus
Jacqueline Hoyt

Writers:
Barry Jenkins
Jacqueline Hoyt
Nathan Parker
Allison Davis
Jihan Crowther

Credit:
In Association with Big Indie Pictures