Harriet Tubman, the much admired African American abolitionist, Civil War spy, philanthropist and just about everything else she could pack into 91 years, died in 1913 just as the movie industry was ...

"You're confident, composed... When trouble comes, you'll be ready." Focus Features has unveiled the first official trailer for Harriet, telling the extraordinary true story of American icon Harriet ...

Cynthia Erivo captures the spirit of Underground Railroad freedom fighter Harriet Tubman with enough ferocity and feeling to set this biopic soaring. The passionate acting of this British dynamo — a ...

Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln. Denzel Washington as Malcolm X. Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher. Hollywood loves an iconic biopic performance, but it’s long snubbed one of our country’s most ...

When director Kasi Lemmons started work on the first major movie about Harriet Tubman, the 19th century slave turned hero of the Underground Railway, she decided to focus less on the brutality of ...

One of the final scenes of Kasi Lemmons’ “Harriet,” a biopic about the runaway slave turned abolitionist Harriet Tubman, required its star, Cynthia Erivo, to climb a cliff in full period dress.

Cynthia Erivo plays Harriet Tubman, the courageous Underground Railroad conductor who became a hero of the anti-slavery movement, in Kasi Lemmons' bio-drama 'Harriet.' By David Rooney Chief Film ...

Filmmaker Kasi Lemmons' 'Harriet' on Friday crossed $40 million in ticket sales at the domestic box office, a major feat for a specialty biographical drama. By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer ...

• Auburn is in the movie. “Harriet” mostly takes place between 1849, when Tubman escaped from slavery in Maryland, and the Civil War, when she led the Combahee River raid that liberated more than 700 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The highly-anticipated movie ‘Harriet’ — filmed in Central Virginia — hits theaters next week. The feature film depicts abolitionist Harriet Tubman’s journey of freeing hundreds ...