The Music for The Underground Railroad with Composer Nicholas Britell - Mix Sessions
Two-time Oscar-nominated composer Nicholas Britell (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk) brings a modern voice to this re-imagination of the path to freedom by Academy Award-winning Barry Jenkins, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Colson Whitehead.
MOVIE STUDIO
Amazon Studios
DIRECTOR
Barry Jenkins
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Nicholas Britell
Synopsis
A fictional story of people attempting an escape from slavery in the southern United States in the 1800s utilising a key plot element employing the literary style of magic realism. In reality, "The Underground Railroad" was a network of abolitionists, hidden routes, and safe houses that helped enslaved African-Americans escape to freedom in the early to mid-1800s. In the novel and the series, it is an actual railroad complete with engineers, conductors, tracks, and tunnels. Cora, a slave in Georgia, joins newcomer Caesar to ride the subterranean train to freedom.