TV series
The Promised Land
1 season
A sober, music-rich historical documentary that asks you to sit with testimony and archival footage and feel the weight of a long migration.
- Created by
- Edmund Coulthard, Nick Godwin
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Morgan Freeman
- Overview
- Five-part documentary detailing the migration of millions of African-Americans from the deep South to the industrial North, between 1942 and 1970. Uses archival materials and interviews, as well as a focus on music of the period and the present.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Race, identity, family, memory
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Edmund Coulthard, Nick Godwin
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Morgan Freeman
