2016 Movies : True Story

With Matthew McConaughey • Gugu Mbatha-Raw • Keri Russell • Scott Stuber • Leonard Hartman • Stuart Ford • Michael Bassick • Gary Ross • Robert Simonds • Christopher Woodrow • Mahershala Ali • Oren Aviv • Matt Jackson • Robin Bissell • Russell Levine • Elexa Ruth • Lenny Feder • Adam Fogelson • T.G. Herrington • Christopher Lytton • Bruce Nachbar

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 armed rebellion against the Confederacy. Banding together with other small farmers and local slaves, Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones. Knight continued his struggle into Reconstruction, distinguishing him as a compelling, if controversial, figure of defiance long beyond the War.