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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.
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.
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.
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...
Jan 9, 2016 · FREE STATE OF JONES is an epic action-drama set during the Civil War, and tells the story of defiant So ...more. Written and directed by four-time Oscar nominee Gary Ross (THE HUNGER...
Jun 24, 2016 · 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 nephew dies in battle...
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A Mississippi farmer-turned-outlaw leads a ragtag band of fellow Civil War deserters and enslaved people in a rebellion against the Confederacy. Watch trailers & learn more.
