The Porter
Aubrey Nealon, Bruce Ramsay, 2022-
They Call Me George
Cecil Foster, 2019
The Porter is a TV series created by Aubrey Nealon and Bruce Ramsay in 2022 and inspired by the book They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters by Cecil Foster, first published in 2019. The TV series features Mouna Traoré, Alfre Woodard, Aml Ameen, Olunike Adeliyi, Stephanie Sy, Ronnie Rowe, and others.
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Storyline
The series depict the history of Black Canadian and African-American men who worked as Pullman porters in the period following World War I, leading to the 1925 creation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters as the first Black-led labour union.
Genres
Movie vs Book
Year
2022
Minutes
60
Movie Rate
5.90
Source: IMDb
TV Series
The Porter
Creator: Aubrey Nealon, Bruce Ramsay
Country: Canada
Year: 2022-
Length: 1h / 2 episodes
Year
2019
Pages
336
Book Rate
7.02
S: Goodreads
Book
They Call Me George
Subtitle: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters
Author: Cecil Foster
Country: Canada
First published in: 2019
Length: 336 pages
Genre: Non Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“As an author, it's a strange process to watch your novel turned into a movie. It's tremendously exciting but somewhat voyeuristic.”
MARCUS SAKEY (Writer)
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