Underground Railroad: The William Still Story

About Underground Railroad: The William Still Story

William Still was one of the most important, yet largely unheralded heroes of the Underground Railroad. Still was determined to get as many runaways as he could to "Freedom's Land," smuggling them across the US border to Canada.

Laine Drewery's Underground Railroad: The William Still Story is a 2012 documentary tv movie film. Its themes are slavery and biography.

Chemika Bennett-Heath appears as Jane Johnson, Cherise Brown Hammill as Escape slave, Winsome Cooper as Runaway Slave, and Dion Johnstone as William Still. It runs 60 minutes and was released in January 2012.

The screenplay is by Laine Drewery. It streams on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel and WETA+ in the United States.

Harriet, The Birth of a Nation, and Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches make useful companions to Underground Railroad: The William Still Story. It carries a G rating.