The Underground Railroad

DVD 2024

Cora, fleeing slavery, embarks on a treacherous quest for freedom and is menaced by violence, supported by a clandestine community fighting for liberation, and haunted by the people she loses along the way.

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Fugitive slaves United States Fiction

Underground Railroad Fiction

United States History 19th century Fiction

United States Race relations 19th century Fiction

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Fiction television programs Historical television programs Television mini-series Television programs Video recordings for people with visual disabilities Video recordings for the hearing impaired

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Criterion Collection Criterion Collection ; 1223 Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1223 DVD

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ISBN:

9798886071542

Edition:

Director-approved four-DVD special edition

Description:

4 videodiscs (585 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital 5.1
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Other Title:

Underground Railroad (Television program : 2021) [DVD]

Notes:

Adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 novel
Special features: New audio commentary featuring Jenkins and, on select chapters, cinematographer James Laxton and lead editor Joi McMillon, with an introduction by the director; New graphic-novel adaptation of "Genesis," an unfilmed chapter of The Underground Railroad written by Jenkins and Nathan C. Parker, drawn by Valentine De Landro, with an introduction by Jenkins ; The Gaze, a companion film by Jenkins, with a new introduction by the director ; Deleted scenes, with a statement by Jenkins ; Seven teasers made by Jenkins, with a new introduction by the director ; Building "The Underground Railroad," a short program featuring Jenkins and production designer Mark Friedberg discussing the creation of the train-station sets ; An essay by critic Angelica Jade Bastién
Title from container
Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon, Joel Edgerton, Fred Hechinger, Peter Mullan, Sheila Atim
Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program in 2021
DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1
For private home use only
Audio track in English, captions in English, accessible audio track in English
Described video for the blind and visually impaired
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)

Contents:

Disc 1. Chapter one: Georgia
Chapter two: South Carolina
Disc 2. Chapter three: North Carolina
Chapter four: The great spirit
Chapter five: Tennessee exodus
Disc 3. Chapter six: Tenneessee proverbs
Chapter seven: Fanny Briggs
Chapter eight: Indiana autumn
Disc 4. Chapter nine: Indiana winter
Chapter ten: Mabel

Control Number:

3319936

UPC:

715515297912

Other Authors:

Amazon Studios, production company
Atim, Sheila, 1992- actor
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Crowther, Jihan, screenwriter
Davis, Allison, (Producer), screenwriter, television producer
De Landro, Valentine, illustrator
Dillon, Chase W., actor
Edgerton, Joel, 1974- actor
Hechinger, Fred, actor
Hoyt, Jacqueline, screenwriter
Jenkins, Barry, 1979- television director, screenwriter, author
Mbedu, Thuso, 1991- actor
Mullan, Peter, actor
Parker, Nathan C., screenwriter
Rush, Adrienne, screenwriter
container of (work) : Jenkins, Barry, 1979- Genesis
television adaptation of (work): Whitehead, Colson, 1969- Underground railroad

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