Best Collection Of TV Shows About Slavery

In keeping with the original project, this series seeks to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.

OTT Platforms for The 1619 Project are Hulu

Caroline Randall Williams, an award-winning writer, cookbook author and restaurateur, travels the United States uncovering the fascinating, essential and often untold black stories behind American food.

OTT Platforms for Hungry For Answers are Max Amazon Channel, Max, Discovery+ Amazon Channel, and Discovery+

Dramatic events unfold in Croatia and Ukraine. The first girl drowned, the second one died from a drug overdose. The main suspect in these deaths, however, soon turns out to be innocent - and dead too. While detective Vladimir and reporter Stribor struggle to solve these murders in Croatia, the niece of Olga, an Ukrainian philanthropist, goes missing in Kyiv.

OTT Platforms for Silence are HRTi, HBO Max

See the real modern-day Amazonia through an exploration of the Amazon Basin, meeting a different group of people who live there in each episode.

OTT Platforms for Unknown Amazon with Pedro Andrade are fuboTV

Follow young Cora’s journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.

OTT Platforms for The Underground Railroad are Amazon Prime Video

Hybrid docuseries offering an expansive exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa, and its impact on society today.

OTT Platforms for Exterminate All the Brutes are HBO Max, HBO Now Amazon Channel, and HBO Now

Enslaved teenager Henry Shackleford, aka Little Onion, becomes a member in abolitionist John Brown’s motley family during the Bleeding Kansas era before the Civil War.

OTT Platforms for The Good Lord Bird are fuboTV, Showtime Amazon Channel, Showtime Roku Premium Channel, Showtime, and DIRECTV Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, and Vudu.

A father takes an irreverent and honest approach to parenting and relationships.

OTT Platforms for #blackAF are Netflix

The history of decolonization from the point of view of colonized peoples, an epic story that still resonates and reverberates to this day.

In a mythical land called Arth, the inhabitants of the ancient city of Arthdal and its surrounding regions vie for power as they build a new society.

OTT Platforms for 아스달 연대기 are Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads

Explore the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change. The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the meaning and makeup of our democracy.

OTT Platforms for Sirene are Discovery+, Discovery+ Amazon Channel

Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, we follow the trials, tribulations and survival of plantation slave July and her odious mistress Caroline.

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Fifteen-year-old Chise has nothing and no one to live for. But that changes when she becomes the apprentice and future wife of inhuman mage, Elias.

OTT Platforms for 魔法使いの嫁 are Netflix, Hulu, U-NEXT, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix basic with Ads, and Crunchyroll

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.

OTT Platforms for The Handmaid's Tale are Hulu Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, and Vudu.

An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave, Kunta Kinte sold to America and his descendants.

OTT Platforms for Roots are HBO Max Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, and Vudu.

A group of slaves plan a daring 600-mile escape from a Georgia plantation. Along the way, they are aided by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the Underground Railroad as they attempt to evade the people charged with bringing them back, dead or alive.

OTT Platforms for Underground are fuboTV, Hulu, Pure Flix, and Here TV Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, FandangoNOW, and Vudu.

Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia and treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secure her freedom in the 19th century.

OTT Platforms for The Book of Negroes are iciTouTV, Club Illico, and ILLICO Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies.

Lado a Lado is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by Rede Globo from September 10, 2012 to March 8, 2013. Written by Claudia Lage and João Ximenes Braga, with collaborations by Chico Soares, Douglas Tourinho, Fernando Rebello, Vellego Jackie, Nina Crintzs and Maria Camargo, script supervision by Gilberto Braga, directed by Dennis Carvalho and core general direction of Vinicius Coimbra, it starrs Camila Pitanga and Marjorie Estiano as the main characters.

Young women from Lithuania and Russia are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves.

OTT Platforms for Matroesjka's are Yelo Play

Spartacus, who was enslaved by the Romans after they murdered his father, leads fellow slaves in an attempt to overthrow the repressive Roman Empire.

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

OTT Platforms for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit are fuboTV, Hulu, Peacock Premium, DIRECTV, and USA Network Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, Vudu, and Microsoft Store.

A look at the role of slavery in the development of wealth in the United Kingdom

Everything you thought you knew about slavery is about to be challenged. Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery is the groundbreaking series that makes history by sharing it from a new perspective. Nearly ten years in the making, this landmark six-hour set exposes the truth through surprising revelations, dramatic recreations, rare archival photography and riveting first-person accounts.

A four-part drama, set against the background of the English slave trade and adapted by Philippa Gregory from her novel.

The complex life of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that "all men are created equal" yet owned slaves, is recounted by master filmmaker Ken Burns in this probing documentary. Covering Jefferson's diplomatic work in France, his two presidential terms, his retirement at Monticello and more.

Queen is the story about Easter, the illegitimate daughter of James Jackson, III and her lifelong affair with plantation owner Tim Daly, which would result in the birth of Queen. Queen's story revolves around her early years as a slave who yearns to know who her father is, and her condition as a fair skin mixed race woman who spends her life trying to figure out where exactly she fits in.

OTT Platforms for Alex Haley's Queen are Discovery Plus Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, and Vudu.

A comprehensive and definitive history of the American Civil War.

OTT Platforms for The Civil War are Hoopla, DIRECTV, and Sling TV Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, and Microsoft Store.