| Director: | Julie Dash |
| Screenplay: | Ronald Taylor |
| Narrator: | Oprah Winfrey |
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| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Brothers of the Borderland is a 2004 film directed by American filmmaker Julie Dash. The film is on display as an immersive film experience at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.[1]
Brothers of the Borderland tells the story of a female slave who escapes to freedom with assistance from John Parker, a free black man, and Rev. John Rankin, a white minister.[2] The 25-minute-long film features narration from Oprah Winfrey and displays in an immersive, experiential theater.[1] The film takes place on the Kentucky-Ohio border and features a crossing of the Ohio River.[3]
The Cincinnati Enquirer described the film as a "full sensory experience" inside a "tree-lined 'environmental' theater where fog rises from the floor and 'bullets' whiz by."[3]