Brutal new series lays bare the horrors of slavery and the perils of escape – see how to watch The Underground Railroad online, with every single episode ready to stream today.
Barry Jenkins’ long-awaited adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel depicts Cora and Caesar’s lionhearted struggle for freedom from the shackles of slavery along the Underground Railroad, a secret network to a hopeful new life, in this case reimagined as a subterranean system of tracks and tunnels. Brutal, harrowing yet excruciatingly hopeful throughout, it’s a must-watch, and we detail below how to watch The Underground Railroad online on Amazon Prime Video. The Underground Railroad made it possible for tens of thousands of enslaved people to escape the southern states and head north, beyond the Ohio River, codenamed the River Jordan, and into the northern states or the Promised Land of Canada.
