Free State of Jones 2016

Free State of Jones 2016. This is the first film I've seen that attempts to portray Reconstruction with accuracy. The recent remake of "Roots" led audiences to believe once the Civil War was over, everything was just fine for African Americans. "Free State of Jones" examines the Black Codes that unreconstructed white supremacists forced onto the black population, injustice that would last through Jim Crow into the 1970s

A defiant southern farmer, Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey), leads an extraordinary rebellion with farmers and slaves to secede from the Confederacy during the civil war.

Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali
Runtime: 2 hours, 20 minutes