Based on an iconic 1863 photo, a slave, torn from his family to work on rebel railroad, escapes into a swamp pursued by a cruel slave catcher, winds up in the Union Army.
Emancipation (2022)
The Underground Railroad (2021)
Set in an imaginary South where the Underground Railroad sends real trains through tunnels, this is the story of Cora who boards it in Georgia in her quest for freedom.
Nightjohn (1996)
Before the Civil War a Black man who voluntarily returns to slavery to teach slaves how to read finds an eager pupil in a young girl.