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The Good Lord Bird

All of this is true. Most of it happened.

2020 · TV-MA · 1 season · 7 episodes

Created by Mark Richard and Ethan Hawke

6.7

TMDB audience score
111 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

About 5h 15m to watch every episode. An estimate: 7 episodes at the latest episode runtime of 45 minutes.

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Main cast

  • Ethan Hawke
    John Brown
    7 episodes

  • Joshua Caleb Johnson
    Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford
    7 episodes

  • Hubert Point-Du Jour
    Bob
    7 episodes

  • Beau Knapp
    Owen Brown
    7 episodes

  • Nick Eversman
    John Brown Jr.
    7 episodes

  • Ellar Coltrane
    Salmon Brown
    7 episodes

  • Jack Alcott
    Jason Brown
    7 episodes

  • Mo Brings Plenty
    Ottawa Jones
    7 episodes

  • McKinley Belcher III
    Broadnax
    6 episodes

  • Quentin Plair
    Shields Green / 'Emperor'
    4 episodes

  • Daveed Diggs
    Frederick Douglass
    3 episodes

  • Wyatt Russell
    James Ewell Brown Stuart
    3 episodes

  • Rafael Casal
    John Cook
    3 episodes

  • Miles Mussenden
    Dangerfield Newby
    3 episodes

  • Joel Ashur
    Attucks Copeland
    3 episodes

  • Ali Amin Carter
    Lewis Leary
    3 episodes

  • Victor Williams
    Coachman Jim
    3 episodes

  • George Boaitey
    O.P. Anderson
    3 episodes

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