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The Underground Railroad is an American historical drama limited television series 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.
- May 14, 2021
- Amazon Prime Video
Jun 25, 2021 · Barry Jenkins Felt His Way Through The Underground Railroad. How intuition and instinct shaped the filmmaker’s most ambitious project to date. By Matt Zoller Seitz, critic, filmmaker, and...
- Matt Zoller Seitz
- Features Writer
May 14, 2021 · Barry Jenkins served as showrunner, executive producer, writer and director to the 10-part Amazon series, The Underground Railroad . Atsushi Nishijima/Amazon Studios. (Warning: This column...
- Eric Deggans
May 10, 2021 · For director Barry Jenkins, filming The Underground Railroad has been the most difficult undertaking of his career. Amazon's new series based is based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer...
- Terry Gross
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May 13, 2021 · May 13, 2021. The Underground Railroad. NYT Critic’s Pick. In Barry Jenkins’s transfixing adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” Martin (Damon Herriman), a white...
- James Poniewozik
May 14, 2021 · In Barry Jenkins’s reimagining of Colson Whitehead’s popular novel “The Underground Railroad,” it is as if the land speaks. In the light of high noon, cotton fields are menacingly...
Barry Jenkins. The Underground Railroad. A monumental reimagining of American history, Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 2016 novel is a harrowing and rhapsodic journey through a still-echoing past.
