Inside this conventionally structured biopic resides an extraordinary story of an extraordinary man. William Wilberforce was the parliamentary spokesman for a group of radicalised young Evangelists (and Quakers), who despised the money politics and corruption of late 18th Century UK politics and who fought for many reformist policies, the most notable of which was the one this film annotates, the abolition of slavery, a process that took years of political skulduggery and the slow passage of find out more...
In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the find out more...
Charismatic Ward Allen turns his back on his plantation upbringing to make his living off the land. With his close company, freed slave Christmas Moultrie, he hunts on the rivers of Georgia, continuously challenging the law. Back on dry land, he navigates the legal system with ease, effecting important changes in hunting legislation. But when he catches the eye of a beautiful society woman he discovers a whole new challenge.< find out more...