Long before billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel dreamed up the idea of a floating libertarian island nation, a 24-year-old Yale grad student named Jason Sorens proposed a far more down-to-earth ...

After winning an Oscar for his role in Dallas Buyers Club, starring in Interstellar, and also receiving several Emmy nominations for his work in True Detective, Matthew McConaughey was on top of the ...

If you think a thick, juicy slab of Civil War history can’t be boiled down to 145 minutes of speechifying, stultifying cinema, then grab a seat at Free State of Jones. Like the worst civics lesson, ...

Behind the historic events that inspired Matthew McConaughey's new movie, Free State of Jones Free State of Jones brings to life one of the Civil War’s most extraordinary and counterintuitive episodes ...

Set during the Civil War, "Free State of Jones" tells the story of defiant Southern farmer Newt Knight and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy. Banding together with other small ...

People change over time. Their opinions change, their politics change, the way they see the world changes. In Free State of Jones, except for some slight alterations in how he looks, Matthew ...