Series

Georgia, mid-19th century: Even among her fellow sufferers, young slave Cora (Thuso Mbedu) lives an outsider's existence on a plantation. After witnessing a cruel execution, she decides to escape with newcomer Caesar. Their destination: the so-called "Underground Railroad", a secret network that wants to help slaves escape to the North underground. The escape does not go unnoticed, however: bounty hunter Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton) also pursues the two for very personal reasons... 

For the serial adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning literary original, Amazon scored a real coup with Oscar winner Barry Jenkins ("Moonlight," "If Beale Street Could Talk") as director. He shows America and the rest of the world in ten rousing episodes the whole horror of racism and slavery vividly - but also dressed in exquisite images - and thus creates what "Roots" was in the 1970s: A serial memento, which is unfortunately still of unbroken relevance today - not only in the U.S. 

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