The retelling of this woman's stint as a Union spy has audiences rolling.

Casting Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer as Harriet Tubman is a stroke of genius in Crissle West's telling of the famous abolitionist's story. The leader on the Underground Railroad served not only as a nurse and a cook in the Union but as a spy, recruiting former slaves to search out rebel camps and map the movement of the Confederates.

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