Director Barry Jenkins sees beauty in an ugly history
The Underground Railroad's crew embraced the natural beauty of the state of Georgia while exploring the issue of slavery
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In The Underground Railroad, Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins tells the story of a runaway slave and the bounty hunter sent after her.
Now streaming on Amazon Prime Video in Singapore, the series reimagines the historical "underground railroad" - a network of people, secret routes and safehouses that helped slaves escape America's south - as a literal railroad.
