Matthew McConaughey
Newt Knight
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Free State of Jones is a 2016 American historical war film inspired by the life of Southern Unionist Newton Knight, who led a successful armed revolt against the Confederacy in Jones County, Mississippi, throughout the American Civil War.
Jun 24, 2016 · Free State of Jones: Directed by Gary Ross. With Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Keri Russell. A disillusioned Confederate army deserter returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and women in an uprising against the corrupt local Confederate government.
- (63K)
- Action, Biography, Drama
- Gary Ross
- 2016-06-24
Jan 8, 2022 · Newton Knight led a small army of slaves and Confederate deserters to create the "Free State of Jones" in Mississippi during the U.S. Civil War. Known as the Knight Company, his guerrilla army took in fugitive slaves, other Confederate deserters, and even women.
This little-known, counterintuitive episode in American history has now been brought to the screen in Free State of Jones, directed by Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, The Hunger Games) and starring a...
- 3 min
- Richard Grant; Photographs by William Widmer
Jun 24, 2016 · Free State of Jones. In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his...
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- Gary Ross
- R
- Matthew Mcconaughey
A defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, leads an armed uprising that causes a county in Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy and create a free state in this epic action-drama set during the Civil War.
Mar 17, 2022 · "Free State of Jones" is based on the true story of Newton Knight and Jones County, Mississippi, which seceded from the Confederacy during the Civil War. In 1864, a guerrilla company of free and formerly enslaved men and women overthrew the Confederate government in Jones County, Mississippi.
