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    Free State of Jones

    R2016 · Historical drama · 2h 19m

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  1. 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.

  2. 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
  3. 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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    • Gary Ross
    • R
    • Matthew Mcconaughey
  4. Victoria Bynum traces the origins and legacy of the Jones County uprising from the American Revolution to the modern civil rights movement. In bridging the gap between the legendary and the real...

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  5. Jan 9, 2016 · 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...

    • 3 min
    • 6.3M
    • STXfilms
  6. 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.

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  8. After surviving the 1862 Battle of Corinth and being told of the Twenty Negro Law, Newton Knight, a poor farmer from Jones County serving as a battlefield medic in the Confederate Army, deserts and returns home to his farm and his wife, Serena, after seeing his nephew Daniel get shot and killed.

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