SYNOPSIS:

Hundreds of historians have written extensively about the abolitionist, John Brown, and an overwhelming majority of them have rightly concluded that Brown significantly contributed to the inception of the Civil War – the bloodiest war in American history. Yet, no one has ever made a biopic about John Brown and they most certainly haven’t produced a film that is factually based on his real-life story. That is, until now! Simply put, Brown is about sacrifice. It shows us how one man gave up everything, including his life, for a people who weren’t even technically his. Although it covers the most significant eight years of John Brown’s life, it starts while he is still somewhat of a pacifist and it ends with his violent tactics at Harper’s Ferry. Along the way, Brown takes us on an epic journey rooted in total sacrifice. One lengthy run-on sentence sums it up! From giving up his church pew to a black family after a racist elder asked them to leave, to working with Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Detective Allan Pinkerton, and all of the “Transcendentalists” (including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau), to his violence during the controversial “Potawatomie Massacre” in “Bloody Kansas,” to foregoing the chance to kill the antagonist who murdered his special needs son in cold blood, to liberating 11 former slaves by escorting them over 1,100 miles, to handing a foe two loaded pistols when he overheard him say in a speech that he hoped to kill John Brown if he ever met him, to his final hurrah at Harper’s Ferry (in which he raided the U.S. Army Arsenal, in which he kidnapped George Washington’s nephew, and where he was finally apprehended by Robert E. Lee and Jeb Stuart), to having John Wilkes Booth pay a soldier to let him use his uniform so that he could watch Brown be hung, to having Stonewall Jackson oversee Brown’s hanging which ultimately became the first execution for treason in American history, to having the song “John Brown’s Body” become the Union Army’s most popular battle hymn during the Civil War and the precursor to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” still sung today by the American military, John Brown’s story is amazing. Based almost entirely on historic fact and actual chronology during the most significant period in John Brown’s life, Brown covers the above and more in the epic-length biopic about the infamous abolitionist who “lit the spark that started the American Civil War.”