SUNDAY AUGUST 27
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD – THE SECRET HISTORY
Finding freedom’s hidden roads
Screening: Whakaata Māori, 7.30pm
This four-part documentary series picked up a Canadian Screen Award earlier this year. It looks at the social history of the Underground Railroad, the secret network of safe houses and secret routes that helped escaped slaves to freedom in 19th-century America, but also employs modern technology in search of its lost physical traces. Lost towns, buried forts, forgotten tunnels and even a shipwreck emerge as part
