We know that at Ford’s Theatre, on the evening of April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth and died the following morning. We know that America, which had hardly caught its breath from Robert E. Lee’s surrender at the Battle of Appomattox, was plunged into further chaos. Less frequently explored are the days immediately following Lincoln’s death, when Booth, who had escaped from the scene of his crime, was still on the loose. Manhunt, a seven-part series created by Monica Beletsky, dramatizes the 12 days that the assassin was on the run. The show moves between the pursued Booth (Anthony Boyle), the pursuer Edwin Stanton (Tobias Menzies), and the shifting social landscape of America at large—no easy task. And yet Manhunt succeeds as both a thrilling narrative and a historical survey of a nation in peril. —Jack Sullivan

Episodes 1 and 2 of Manhunt will be available for streaming on March 15. New episodes will be released weekly after that.