American Film Company (2008)

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The American Film Company
Founded 2008
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Joe Ricketts
(CEO)
Alfed Levitt
(COO)

Brian Falk
(Producer/Executive)
Robert Stone
(Producer/Executive)
Website The American Film Company

The American Film Company is a film production company founded in 2008 by Joe Ricketts. Ricketts previously founded Ameritrade and, with his family, owns the Chicago Cubs.[1] The American Film Company, founded on the belief that real life is often more compelling than fiction, produces feature films about true stories from America's past.[2] The company has offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Films

The company's first film was The Conspirator,[3] a historical drama about the trial of Mary Surratt, the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the Abraham Lincoln assassination.[4] The film was directed by Robert Redford and stars James McAvoy and Robin Wright.[5] In keeping with the company's goal to create historically accurate films, Pulitzer Prize winner James McPherson, Lincoln assassination expert Thomas Turner, and Army historian Col. Fred Borch consulted on the film.[6]

The American Film Company is currently developing The Arsenal, a film about John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and Midnight Riders, about the midnight ride of Paul Revere.[7]

List of films

References

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