Court-Martial of Charlie Newell

North Carolina, 1917. Charlie Newell lives aquiet life farming as a sharecropper under thehot Southern sun and living in the Negrosettlement of Holly Ridge. Even though theworld is engaged in the Great War, Charlie''sreligion forbids him from fighting. He andother Negroes from the community haveregistered as conscientious objectors, but theU.S. Army ignores their stance and forcesthem into the ser...