Ethan Hawke
John Brown
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- 1. Meet the Lord Oct 4, 2020
- A young slave has a fateful run-in with abolitionist John Brown, who nicknames him Onion.
- 2. A Wicked Plot Oct 11, 2020
- Onion and fellow slave Bob run into pro-slavery red shirts who take them to a slave-trading town.
- 3. Mister Fred Oct 18, 2020
- John Brown and Onion travel north, to the home of Frederick Douglass and his two wives.
The Good Lord Bird is a 2020 American historical drama television miniseries, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by James McBride. Focusing on John Brown's attack on American slavery, the series was created and executive produced by Ethan Hawke and Mark Richard.
The Good Lord Bird. Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this series based on the novel. "Onion" is a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's family of abolitionist soldiers and finds himself in the 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry.
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- 2020-10-04
- Comedy, Drama, War
- 48
A young slave living in the Kansas territory in 1856, has a fateful run-in with abolitionist John Brown, who "frees" him, nicknames him "Onion" and welcomes him into his ragtag army. Series premiere. 7.8/10 (600) Rate. Watch options.
The Good Lord Bird —book and show—is narrated by a fictional character not found in the historical record: Henry Shackleford, an enslaved child Brown quasi-adopts after his father dies.
The Good Lord Bird. John Brown and his remaining army take a last stand as more federal troops descend upon Harper's Ferry. With John Brown captured, Onion, truly on his own, risks his life to say his goodbyes to Brown. Series finale.
The Good Lord Bird is a 2013 novel by James McBride about Henry Shackleford, an enslaved person, who unites with John Brown in Brown's abolitionist mission. The novel won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2013 and received generally positive reviews from critics.
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Buy The Good Lord Bird — Miniseries on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV. Ethan Hawke dazzles in The Good Lord Bird, an epically irreverent adaptation that does right by its source...
