The Good Lord Bird

“All of this is true. Most of it happened.”

Told from the perspective of Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford, a newly freed teenager who 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.

Creators: Mark Richard, Ethan Hawke

Network: Showtime