The Underground Railroad Season 1 Trailer Trailer HD Trailer - Plot Synopsis: From Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD chronicles Cora Randall's desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad beneath the Southern soil.br br br br directed by Barry Jenkinsbr br starring Thuso Mbedu, Aaron Pierre, Joel Edgerton, Damon Herriman, Chase W.