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24 cze 2016 · It tells of a rebellion against the Confederacy led by an angry farmer named Newton Knight, whose ragtag army of poor whites and escaped slaves declared a portion of southeastern Mississippi, including Jones County, independent and loyal to the Union.
24 cze 2016 · Georgia Film Critics Association (GAFCA) • 1 Win & 1 Nomination. Set during the Civil War, Free State of Jones tells the story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy.
20 cze 2016 · Film Review: ‘Free State of Jones’. Matthew McConaughey plays a Confederate deserter turned guerrilla saint in a Civil War drama more dogged than exciting. Newton Knight, the Mississippi...
Not an owner of slaves himself, he forsakes the Confederate army and is made the leader of a group of more than one hundred deserters, who battle back the Confederacy in Jones County. These images are from the movie Free State of Jones, which opened in theaters the weekend of June 24. The medic and later captain of the deserters is Newton ...
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.
29 wrz 2016 · Life & Arts. Add to myFT. Free State of Jones — film review. Slaves and Civil War escapees form their own republic in this historically faithful account. Mahershala Ali and Matthew...
24 cze 2016 · Free State of Jones begins in wartime, and the movie does not allow viewers to forget the awful cost of martial conflict. Confederate soldiers march toward a Union line, many of them knowingly to their doom. The leader is gorily shot in the head.
