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Jun 24, 2016 · And Ross’ excellent “Free State of Jones” makes sense of Knight’s story—in a nod to Knight himself, in a brave, courageous, honorable and heroic manner. The film also makes clear that that gash in the American consciousness is still open—and that injury still needs some major, continuing work to make it heal. founded WFI in the Fall ...
Jun 24, 2016 · Knight and other deserters formed The Free State of Jones, declaring their loyalty to the Union, and flying the stars and stripes rather than the stars and bars. After the war, Knight worked for Reconstruction and married Rachel, a freed slave woman. His children also married cross-racially. He died in 1922.
About this movie. Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey stars in this epic, untold true story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy during the Civil War. Despite overwhelming odds, Knight banded together with other small farmers and local slaves and launched an uprising that led Jones ...
- 139 min
FREE STATE OF JONES is an epic action-drama set during the Civil War, and tells the story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy. Banding together with other small farmers and local slaves, Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the ...
- 140 min
Jun 20, 2016 · June 20, 2016 9:15pm. A compelling and little-known story of the Civil War period is studiously reduced to a dry and cautious history lesson in Free State of Jones. As if afraid to offend anyone ...
Jul 24, 2021 · Free State of Jones. Based – if loosely in places – upon real events, this film is a fascinating sidelight on a little-known aspect of the Civil War. Newton Knight is a Confederate Army doctor, but becomes disillusioned with it after learning how the conscription laws are being amended to suit wealthy planters with twenty or more slaves ...
Jul 5, 2016 · Free State of Jones, STX Entertainment, 139 minutes, 2016. Presentism, introducing present-day ideas and perspectives into depictions or interpretations of the past, can infect the best efforts of movie-makers as well as historians. Gary Ross’ $50 million historical drama, sumptuously filmed and scrupulously researched, is a good example.
