The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation
“ The Untold Story of Nat Turner ”
CINEMA2016-09-09
DIGITAL2016-11-02
RegionCA / US
Runtime120 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“Centers on Nat Turner’s rebellion as enslaved oppression becomes political and armed resistance.”
Storyline
Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites.
DIRECTOR / Director
Nate Parker
KEYWORDS
southern usaslaverybased on true storypreachervirginia19th century
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Bloodstained scars left by imperial conquest—the oppressed rising from the ashes to reclaim sacred human sovereignty.
Centers on Nat Turner’s rebellion as enslaved oppression becomes political and armed resistance.
