The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird
“ All of this is true. Most of it happened. ”
FIRST AIR2020-10-04
RegionUS
Media TypeTV
BROADCASTING
Storyline
Told from the perspective of Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford, a newly freed teenager who joins abolitionist John Brown on a holy crusade to end slavery. Onion encounters Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, and he finds himself as a part of the famous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry.
DIRECTOR / Director
Haifaa al-Mansour
KEYWORDS
based on novel or bookslaverymurderdark comedygangabolitionistearly americapublic execution
