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Underground Railroad (History Channel)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767050784
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767050789
Label: A&E Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
MPN: 70629
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 28, 2003
Running Time: 150 minutes
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Editorial Review:
The Underground Railroad, "the first civil rights movement," was no mere act of civil disobedience. The secret network of guides, pilots, and safe-house keepers (the Railroad's "conductors") was built by runaway slaves who, over the decades, communicated their experiences through songs and secret gestures, and were supported by abolitionists (many of them former slaves) who risked their own freedom to help free the enslaved. The "passengers" risked their lives.
A wealth of photos, documents, and commentary by modern historians provides the broad lines of history, but it comes alive in the individual stories of conductors and passengers, among them abolitionist and historian William Still, called the "Father of the Underground Railroad," and Henry "Box" Brown, who mailed himself to freedom in a cargo crate. They (and many others) take their place beside Harriet Tubman ("the Moses of her people") and Frederick Douglass as courageous heroes in America's first integrated social movement.
The DVD also features the Biography episode on Frederick Douglass, the complete text of the Emancipation Proclamation, a biographical essay on Harriet Tubman, and other historical background pieces. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Interesting History
I find this type if DVD interesting. I love history and digging for facts and found this just up my alley! I enjoy finding out facts that I just didn't know before and I know I will watch this over and over again.
Rating: - a fantastic collection of stories
This DVD was essentially a collection of stories about the underground railroad. They include most, if not all of the well known railroad "conductors". There was not a whole lot of dramatization, but the stories and the visuals throughout the stories were good enough to keep me occupied and interested throughout.
Stories that they tell include some of the more well known one's, like "boxcar Brown" and they also told some stories that I had not heard (despite going over this period of history ... Read More
Rating:  - Important history which everyone should know.
I'm not black, but nevertheless, I would like to see this story which is about a shameful part of American history, about human beings, people who suffered gross mistreatment at the hands of white people,and who had the courage to risk their lives in their race to freedom. They are to be greatly admired. I have not seen or ordered this DVD, much as I'd like to, because it offers no sub-titles, which I need in order to get every word of the dialogue.
DVD producers should wake up and smell ... Read More
Rating: - fine documentary of the first civil rights movement
The History Channel's documentary on the Underground Railroad remains one of the definitive television documentaries of this very early civil rights movement. After quickly establishing that the Underground Railroad was certainly not a railroad train that literally ran underground, we see that the Underground Railroad was in fact a hodge-podge, "make it up as you go along" way of escaping slavery in the southern United States to freedom in the northern United States.
The documentary gives ... Read More
Rating: - Knowledge is power
This is a very good release by the history channel that sheds some light on the underground railroad. I could care less about the acting in this film because this is a documentary. Most documentaires aren't rated on how the acting is but how the information is conveyed to the masses. I felt this is a good release because it is talking about a lot of people and information that are being neglected universally in the schools of amerikkka. More documentaries about africans and our history need to be produced ... Read More
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