Shows like Underground
A group of slaves plan a daring 600-mile escape from a Georgia plantation. Along the way, they are aided by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the Underground Railroad as they attempt to evade the people charged with bringing them back, dead or alive.
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The Underground Railroad
Series · 2021 · also dramaFollow young Cora’s journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad,...
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The Book of Negroes
Series · 2015 · also dramaKidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia and treacherous jungles of Sierr...
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Queen Sugar
Series · 2016 · also dramaTwo sisters, Nova Bordelon and Charley Bordelon, with her teenage son Micah moves to the heart of Louisiana to claim an inheritance from her recently departed father - an...
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Roots
Series · 2016 · also dramaAn adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave, Kunta Kinte sold to America and his descendants.
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Julia
Series · 2022 · also dramaThrough Julia Child’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of public television as a new social ins...
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Sweet Magnolias
Series · 2020 · also dramaLifelong friends Maddie, Helen and Dana Sue lift each other up as they juggle relationships, family and careers in the small Southern town of Serenity.
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Kindred
Series · 2022 · also dramaA young aspiring writer discovers secrets about her family's past when she finds herself mysteriously being pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation.
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Tell Me Lies
Series · 2022 · also dramaWhen Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco meet at college, they are at that formative age when seemingly mundane choices lead the way to irrevocable consequences. They quick...
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Chapelwaite
Series · 2021 · also dramaIn the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after hi...
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Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots
Series · 2013 · also dramaFollow the complicated dynamic between the rich and powerful Cryer family and the hired help who work in their opulent Savannah, Georgia, mansion.
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