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  1. Sep 16, 2022 · It’s a towering task approached by Prince-Bythewood and screenwriter Dana Stevens with gentle sensitivity, and a fierce desire to show Black women as the charters of their own destiny. The film begins with flair: A group of men lounge at the center of a field by a campfire.

  2. The Woman King: Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. With Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim. A historical epic inspired by true events that took place in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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    • Action, Drama, History
    • Gina Prince-Bythewood
    • 2022-09-16
  3. Oct 1, 2022 · Muscular in its action sequences, sweeping in scope; a big, flexing, show-off spectacle of a movie. The Woman King is the kind of historical epic that just doesn’t get made any more. And with a...

  4. Sep 15, 2022 · Starring Viola Davis as General Nanisca, the leader of the Agojie, The Woman King offers a layered narrative. One is of Nanisca's drive to serve her king, protect her people and hold fast to the sisterhood she’s sacrificed and suffered for.

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  5. Sep 10, 2022 · Directed by: Gina Prince-Bythewood. Starring: Viola Davis, John Boyega, Lashana Lynch, Thuso Mbedu. Film length: 2hr 6m. After The Woman King's opening battle against the Oyo, a tribe...

  6. The Woman King is a 2022 American historical action-adventure film about the Agojie, the all-female warrior unit that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th to 19th centuries. Set in the 1820s, the film stars Viola Davis as a general who trains the next generation of warriors to fight their enemies.

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  8. Sep 15, 2022 · In “The Woman King,” Viola Davis leads the women warriors of Dahomey, a real regiment in 19th-century Africa whose exact origins remain obscured by tribal myths and oral traditions. Credit...

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