Rise up.
Original title
Underground
Released
3/9/2016
Origin country
US
Genre
Drama
Production companies
Weed Road Pictures, Sony Pictures Television, Tribune Studios, Safehouse Pictures, Get Lifted Film Co., Wandering Rocks Productions, Afemme
Status
Cancelled
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
20
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.
This half-hour special highlights how a daring few broke free from slavery, one of the greatest atrocities in human history, and established a route to freedom that became known as the Underground Railroad. This documentary special tells the stories of the fugitive heroes from Harriet Tubman to William Still and uncovers the inspiration behind creating "Underground."
In 1857, a group of slaves on a Georgia plantation make the dangerous decision to journey 600 miles north for the promise of freedom.
A plantation dance becomes the perfect distraction for a heist while John and Elizabeth step into a strange new world.
The timetable for escape is agreed upon and Rosalee is tasked with the most important part of the plan.
A notorious slave hunter tracks the runners as John and Elizabeth face a lethal predicament.
There's a $1000 bounty on all of the heads of the seven runaways, and August and his son are hot on their trail. The seven look to reach the train heading north. Pearly Mae is punished and Tom want information from her.
The runners steal a floating barge and ride up river. August's chase takes him into Indian territory. Hawkes finds himself working with a posse to catch runaways within the area.
The runners take shelter in Indian territory. James is put to work in the cotton field. Elizabeth discovers Boo alone after she was separated from her father. August learns his wife broke out of the Asylum.
Rosalee and Cato pose as free folks to get medicine after Noah got shot, while still being hunted by August and Jeremiah's posse. Sam is recaptured and returned to the plantation. Macon looks to rally his supporters.
Rosalee is captured and held at the smokehouse, prompting Noah and Cato to rescue her. John learns of Elizabeth's reckless actions involving Kyle.
Everyone must pay for their sins when the day of reckoning arrives.
The remaining members of the Macon 7 have made it North, but they've learned that freedom is not as simple as crossing a line.
As Elizabeth struggles to regain her bearings following her husband's murder, Noah is being taken to his new owner as Rosalee and a group of runaways try to stay one step ahead of Patty Cannon.
Unbearable complications threaten to break both Ernestine and Rosalee's will to live.
Cato and Noah must face the choices they've made to get where they are.
Cato tempts fate; Ernestine takes on a new apprentice.
Harriet Tubman reflects on a life lived with conviction, compassion, and courage
Rosalee and Noah learn that family betrayal cuts the deepest.
Noah struggles to devise a new plan; Ernestine forms an unlikely bond.
Noah struggles with his new reality; Elizabeth lets fear take control.
The road to freedom is paved in blood.
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