Enslaved season 1

MGM+
Sep 14, 2020

MGM+
Sep 14, 2020

Summary After taking a DNA test, Samuel L. Jackson traces his family to the Benga tribe in Gabon. While Simcha Jacobovici and Afua Hirsch research the possible locations of sunken slave ships with the help of 3D mapping and ground-penetrating radar in the six-part documentary series about the transatlantic slave trade.

Created By: Simcha Jacobovici, Yaron Niski

MGM+
Sep 14, 2020

MGM+
Sep 14, 2020

Enslaved

Season 1

Season Premiere: Sep 14, 2020

Metascore Generally Favorable

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Created By: Simcha Jacobovici, Yaron Niski

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Episode 1 • Sep 14, 2020 • 52 m

Cultures Left Behind

Launching the epic story of the transatlantic slave trade, as told from the ocean floor, divers from Diving With A Purpose go in search of sunken slave ships, while Hollywood icon Samuel L. Jackson goes to meet the tribe of his ancestors.

Episode 2 • Sep 21, 2020 • 52 m

Rationalization

Episode 3 • Sep 28, 2020 • 52 m

Follow the Money

Shot on location in Suriname, Brazil, Portugal and the UK, the team investigate the economics of the slave trade, while searching for a sunken slave ship that represents the single greatest loss of life during the entire slave trade.

Episode 4 • Oct 5, 2020 • 52 m

New World Cultures

Samuel L. Jackson visits the only African town established in America. The Diving With A Purpose divers help youths in Costa Rica discover their African heritage, by diving and identifying a sunken slave ship off their coast.

Episode 5 • Oct 12, 2020 • 52 m

Resistance

Explore the African resistance to slavery in Africa and the thousands who risked their lives as part of the 'Underground Railroad.' The DWP divers hope to identify a preserved wreck of a ship that ferried enslaved Africans to freedom.

Episode 6 • Oct 19, 2020 • 52 m

Abolition

The finale explores the politics that brought the enslavement of Africans in the West to an end. DWP divers search for 'The London, ' a ship that re-enslaved freed Africans from St. Lucia and illegally trafficked them to England.

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The Times

Oct 12, 2020

This documentary flitted about, sometimes a little disjointedly, between Africa, the Americas and England as Jackson and Afua Hirsch narrated the shameful history of slavery along with all its complexities.

By Carol Midgley FULL REVIEW

The Telegraph

Oct 12, 2020

A sobering US documentary series which sets out, in a clear and incontrovertible manner, the horrors of the slave trade.

By Anita Singh FULL REVIEW

The Guardian

Oct 12, 2020

Given the heart-rending human tragedies told by Jackson and Hirsch, it feels indulgent to spend so much time on what is, ultimately, the retrieval of an ancient elephant tusk from the seabed, connected though it is to the slave ships. Perhaps it is all about expectation. The title, Enslaved, will attract those who wish to know more about the trade and its inhumanities, without the extended diving dramas.

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Newsday

Sep 11, 2020

Samuel L. Jackson reveals a hidden side of himself, and that's worth watching for that reason alone.

By Verne Gay FULL REVIEW

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Samuel L. Jackson

Self

Kinga Philipps

Self - Diver

Simcha Jacobovici

Self

Ty Hurley

Lawman, Lord Mansfield

Afua Hirsch

Self

Rachel Sophia-Anthony

Slave on board Ship

Joshua Williams

Self - Diver

Alannah Vellacott

Self - Diver

Kramer Wimberley

Self - Diver

Joshua Plummer

Red Coat, Special Action

Abigael Taiwo

Harriet Tubman

Lasco Atkins

Sailor

Justified

Olaudah Equiano

James Unsworth

Bounty Hunter

Derrick Mintah

Soldier

David Kerr

Judge Sloane

Mark Gooden

Slave

Jes Gislason

First mate, Pirate, special action

Ron Eglash

Self

Kwame Akoto-Bamfo

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