The Good Lord Bird

All of this is true. Most of it happened.

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Release Date

10/4/2020

Runtime

7 eps, 335 mins

Genres

Drama Western War & Politics

Overview

Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford, a newly freed teenager 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.

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Ended

Original Language

English

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A darkly comic coming-of-age epic that follows a freed teenager into John Brown's violent abolitionist crusade, mixing historical grandeur with irreverent humor and genuine moral stakes. The series finds unexpected lightness in a brutal story, letting its central character learn and question even as history marches toward tragedy.