That’s a rousing narrative but far from the whole story that inspired the film “Free State of Jones ... Ali (“House of Cards”) as Moses. a (fictitious) black ally of Knight, the ...

Moses, the fugitive who attends to Newt ... both of which form the basis for the establishment of the Free State of Jones County. The charter for the Free State of Jones County includes a ...

Later, in the Reconstruction-era sequences, “Free State of Jones” turns much of its attention to Moses and his efforts to register voters among newly freed slaves. Knight’s own postwar ...

“Free State of Jones” traces Knight’s crusade all the ... to focus more on Knight’s alliance with a former slave named Moses (a composite character, played in a breakout performance ...

dubbing their rebel stronghold the Free State of Jones. Separated from his wife (Keri Russell), Newt finds love with a runaway slave (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and befriends another, Moses (Mahershala Ali ...

Even when Newt takes house slave Rachel (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) as his common-law wife and frees another slave, Moses (Mahershala ... Not in this movie. Free State of Jones keeps flashing forward ...

Bynum's powerful historical account, The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil ... which will be released this June starring Ali as Moses Washington opposite Matthew McConaughey and ...

When Newt, marveling at Moses’ harsh collar ... about defiant activists falling in love against all odds. If “Free State of Jones,” its firelit confabs, rural greenery and Southern heat ...

So he and Moses and the other runaway slaves get ... Confederate army of Mississippi is arrayed against him. But “Free State of Jones” is one of those historical dramas with a script that ...

He gathers a band of Confederate defectors and escaped slaves, including Moses Washington (Mahershala Ali ... legends to the screen with just a sliver of their legacy. “Free State of Jones” packs its ...

Roosevelt, left, walking at Jones Beach with Robert Moses on the day the cornerstone ... swimming and sunbathing to get a free slice of giant cake, State Parks director George Gorman — who ...

So he and Moses and the other runaway slaves get ... Confederate army of Mississippi is arrayed against him. But “Free State of Jones” is one of those historical dramas with a script that ...