Manderlay (2005)

"Manderlay" is a 2005 Drama movie directed by Peter Grant and starring by Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach de Bankolé. In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.