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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 is the remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything...

    • (277)
    • Gina Prince-Bythewood
    • PG-13
    • Viola Davis
  3. Sep 10, 2022 · Film length: 2hr 6m. After The Woman King's opening battle against the Oyo, a tribe that captures other Africans to be sold as slaves, Prince-Bythewood takes us into the world of Dahomey.

  4. Jul 10, 2022 · An all-female unit of warriors known as the Agojie, led by General Nanisca (Viola Davis), protect the kingdom and its young King Ghezo (John Boyega) against the larger Oyo Empire.

  5. 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.

    • (75K)
    • Action, Drama, History
    • Gina Prince-Bythewood
    • 2022-09-16
  6. Sep 15, 2022 · Led by the battle-scarred General Nanisca (Viola Davis), the women soldiers, their bodies oiled to a high gleam, emerge like hallucinations that Prince-Bythewood makes palpably real. Suddenly,...

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  8. Sep 15, 2022 · Instead they offer a visually luxuriant story full of heart, humor and vicious battle sequences that pull these women and the kingdom of Dahomey in sharp focus. The Woman King tackles the complicated history of slavery and Africa by letting the truth drive the plot.

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