Awards and Controversy
Mission US was launched by WNET in 2010.
Other “missions” in the series focus on the experience of a young American colonist in Boston, a teenage member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe, and a turn-of-the-century Russian immigrant.
According to WNET, the content of Flight to Freedom was developed by a team of historians from the American Social History Project/Center for Media & Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center, in collaboration with leading African-American scholars Nikki Taylor andChristopher Moore.