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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.
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- Action, Biography, Drama
- Gary Ross
- 2016-06-24
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...
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Jun 23, 2016 · T he American Civil War has been combed over in popular culture countless times, but the true story that inspired the new film Free State of Jones, out Friday, may still surprise some viewers.
FREE STATE OF JONES takes place in 1862, in Jones City, Mississippi, where a Confederate soldier named Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) finds himself demoralized after witnessing a teen boy's death on a blood-soaked battlefield.
Free State of Jones. 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. 6,467 IMDb 6.9 2 h 19 min 2016. X-Ray R.
