The Underground Railroad is created and directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk).
The 11-episode limited series will chronicle Cora’s journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
The limited series is also executive produced by Jenkins through his Pastel Productions alongside Oscar winner Brad Pitt through his Plan B Entertainment banner.
Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, The Underground Railroad follows Cora, a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia who is an outcast even amongst her fellow Africans and is struggling coming into womanhood when she meets Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia who informs her of the Underground Railroad, inspiring them both to take the risk and escape to freedom.