Why The Free State of Jones Is The Most Important Movie About The Civil War Since Glory In 1989 when the movie Glory was released, most Americans did not realize that […]
Victoria Bynum on the “Free State of Jones” Movie and the Long History of the Lost Cause
With Free State of Jones, Hollywood’s Civil War Comes Closer to History’s By Victoria Bynum, published for Zocalo Public Square The setting is the piney woods of Civil War Jones County, Mississippi. […]
The Free State of Jones: Louis Proyect reviews movie
Originally posted on Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXwcWY1Zrk0 Like last year’s “Trumbo”, “The Free State of Jones” is guaranteed to earn my vote for best film of 2016 for its combination…
Charles Blow blows his horn in the New York Times
by Victoria Bynum In today’s New York Times, opinion editor Charles Blow delivers a harsh critique of the movie, Free State of Jones, arguing that its treatment of slavery in general and […]
The Movie “Free State of Jones”: Reviews and Photos!

By Vikki Bynum Below are links to recent reviews, articles, and interviews about the movie, The Free State of Jones, followed by photographs from the movie’s Hollywood premiere on June 21, 2016. […]
Free State of Jones and Historical Accuracy
An interesting piece from Christian McWhirter as we await the release of movie, Free State of Jones: Free State of Jones is only a week away and the New York Times ran […]
Hear my 2015 Interview about the “Free State of Jones” at 2-3 pm today!

by Vikki Bynum, author of The Free State of Jones With the imminent release of the movie, Free State of Jones happening on June 24, 2016, Thorne Dreyer, host of Austin’s historic Rag […]
Why I’m excited about the movie “The Free State of Jones”

by Victoria Bynum, author of The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War It’s been forty years since I first saw the name “Newton Knight” in the footnotes of a […]