Extended Trailer
Explore the nuanced portrait of Harriet Tubman, the “Conductor” of the Underground Railroad, who risked her own freedom and life to free others from slavery.
Extras + Features
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Visions
4m 5s
While trying to protect a young boy chased by his enslaver, Tubman is hit in the head with a heavy metal weight which leaves her with lifelong seizures, terrible headaches and visions she interprets as being from God. Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom is produced and directed by Stanley Nelson and Nicole London and narrated by Alfre Woodard.
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Original Abolitionists
4m 3s
Traveling alone, Tubman escapes to Philadelphia and becomes involved with the Black abolitionist movement while the new Fugitive Slave Law makes life for African Americans even more dangerous. Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom is produced and directed by Stanley Nelson and Nicole London and narrated by Alfre Woodard.
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General Tubman
3m 28s
During the Civil War, Tubman is a nurse and spy, and the mastermind behind the first major military operation in American history planned and executed by a woman — one that freed over 720 people. Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom is produced and directed by Stanley Nelson and Nicole London and narrated by Alfre Woodard.
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Eastern Shore
3m 41s
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland in 1822 and forced to work — catching muskrats in the swamps and cleaning and caring for a colicky baby — by age five. Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom is produced and directed by Stanley Nelson and Nicole London and narrated by Alfre Woodard.
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Extended Trailer
1m 50s
Explore the nuanced portrait of Harriet Tubman, the “Conductor” of the Underground Railroad, who risked her own freedom and life to free others from slavery.
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