‘The Underground Railroad’ director Barry Jenkins on telling America’s real story

The Oscar-winning director of ‘Moonlight’, Barry Jenkins, has adapted the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, ‘The Underground Railroad’, into a drama series for Amazon.

It tells the story of Cora, a slave in the South of the United States, who makes a bid for freedom using the so-called Underground Railroad.

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