The American Film Company is a film production company founded in 2008 by Joe Ricketts. Ricketts previously founded TD Ameritrade and, with his family, owns the Chicago Cubs.^[1] The American Film Company, founded on the belief that real life is often more compelling than fiction, produces feature films about true stories from America's past.^[2] The company has offices in New York City and Los Angeles.

Films

The company's first film was The Conspirator,^[3] a historical drama about the trial of Mary Surratt, the lone woman charged as a co-conspirator in the Abraham Lincoln assassination.^[4] The film was directed by Robert Redford and stars James McAvoy and Robin Wright.^[5] In keeping with the company's goal to create historically accurate films, Pulitzer Prize winner James McPherson, Lincoln assassination expert Thomas Turner, and Army historian Col. Fred Borch consulted on the film.^[6]

The American Film Company is currently developing The Arsenal, a film about John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and Midnight Riders, about the midnight ride of Paul Revere.^[7]

List of films

• The Conspirator (2010)
• Parkland (2013)
• Against the Sun (2014)
• Born in the Badlands
• The Arsenal
• The Third Wave