What ‘The Woman King’ gets wrong — and right — about Dahomey’s warriors The new film tells an embellished story of Dahomey women soldiers.

The warriors of this West African kingdom were formidable—and female In the 17th century, Dahomey flourished under the protection of its all-woman military regiment that inspired Viola Davis's ...

The Daily Princetonian spoke with economics professor Leonard Wantchekon about his involvement with “The Woman King,“ a new film about a group of all-female warriors from the West African kingdom of ...

The Real Warriors Behind ‘The Woman King’ A new film stars Viola Davis as the leader of the Agojie, the all-woman army of the African kingdom of Dahomey ...

Critics Pick ‘Dahomey’ Review: Mati Diop’s Exquisitely Strange Documentary Meditation on the Return of Looted Artifacts to Benin The "Atlantics" director makes a dreamlike, discursive ...

“The Woman King” cinematographer Polly Morgan opens up about the research the film’s crew did on the Dahomey people, as well as camera techniques used to emphasize the Agojie warriors ...

From roughly 1600 to 1900, the Kingdom of Dahomey carved out a powerful position in West Africa and a unique place on the world stage. With help from its fearsome squads of women warriors known as ...

All hail Viola Davis. Davis stars in "The Woman King" as General Nanisca, leader of the Agojie, a group of fearless female warriors who protect the Kingdom of Dahomey under King Ghezo (John Boyega ...

“The Woman King” is inspired by 19th-century female warriors in an African kingdom and creates a rousing action vehicle, augmented by plenty of melodrama. That combination yields a strong ...

“The Woman King” is set in 1823 Dahomey, a West African kingdom now known as the nation of Benin. Viola Davis plays the leader of an all-female army of warriors known as the Agojie.

Sony Pictures’ “The Woman King” is based on a true story of the Dahomey warriors, an all-female military unit in the West Africa region that’s known as Benin today. They fought for the Kingdom of ...