The new drama “Mr. Jones” may take place nearly 90 years ago, but its message is still very relevant today. In an era of “fake news,” the look at Welsh journalist Gareth Jones’ quest to bring the truth about the man-made Ukrainian famine-genocide under Stalin’s regime in the early 1930s is as timely as ever.
James Norton stars as Jones, a reporter who ventures out on an unsanctioned trip to Ukraine where he comes face-to-face with the horrific realities of the famine known as the Holodomor, a plan manufactured by Stalin to quash the Ukrainian independence movement.
Up against the regime, Jones also faces Walter Duranty (Peter Sarsgaard), the Moscow Bureau Chief for the New York Times whose denial of the famine and attempts to discredit
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