The Cynical Historian

The Free State of Jones | Based on a True Story (2016x39)

Air date: Dec 10, 2016

There are a few problems with the accuracy of the Free State of Jones, but they’re mostly forgivable. What really makes this a bad movie has nothing to do with that. It just makes some storytelling mistakes that made this an unbearable movie to watch ------------------------------------------------------------ more videos: previous: https://youtu.be/VW_fEdrvmOI related: https://youtu.be/zzsvOBjRXew ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Oshinsky, David. Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1997. https://amzn.to/2udhA8Q Blackmon, Douglas. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. New York: Anchor Books, 2008. https://amzn.to/2zWOT64 http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/free-state-of-jones/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-free-state-jones-180958111/?no-ist http://journalofthecivilwarera.org/2016/07/right-wrong-free-state-jones-making-sense-civil-war-film-tradition/ http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/free-state-of-jones-movie-review/ http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-historical-imagination-and-free-state-of-jones http://www.southeastern.edu/news_media/news_releases/2016/june/hyde_free_state_jones.html http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-story-behind-free-state-of-jones/ http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/08/small-truth-papering-over-a-big-lie/61136/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_of_Jones_(film)#Premise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_County,_Mississippi#Civil_War_years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_Knight ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 contribute to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian LET'S CONNECT: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88