Free State of Jones

Year: 2016

Actors: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew McConaughey, Keri Russell, Mahershala Ali

Duration: 139 min

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. While there, he befriends Rachel, an enslaved woman who has secretly learned to read..

Genre: Action   Biography   Drama   History   War   Western