I too am looking for the movie, two years later.
I saw a reference to it and then went looking for the 'story'. I found the interesting local story here:
http://journals.aol.com/bmiller224/OldHickorysWeblog/entries/2005/04/23/confederate-heritage-month---april-23-newt-knight-and-the-free-state-of-jones/2945
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It's interesting that this film was made the same year Davis Knight (great-grandson of Newt Knight on whom the film is loosely based) was tried in a miscegenation case.
"The storm cannot be stopped, but it can be survived.'"
ascott39: Remember seeing this film on the old AMC. A lot of great films are no longer seen since that network stopped their classic movie format and TCM for some reason has not picked up the slack on these gems.
shareThe thing that immediately springs to mind while watching this well-made film is - what is the history ?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-free-state-jones-180958111/