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The Birth of a Nation

2016·120 min

The Birth of a Nation

Directed by Nate Parker

Drama

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.

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Nat Turner

Samuel Turner

Cherry

Jackie Earle Haley

Raymond Cobb

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Jason Michael Berman

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Producer

Aaron L. Gilbert

Producer

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Preston L. Holmes

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Penelope Ann Miller

Elizabeth Turner

Gabrielle Union

Esther

Mark Boone Junior

Reverend Zalthall

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Nancy Turner

Isaac Turner

Bridget Turner

Roger Guenveur Smith

Isaiah

Janice

Hark

Hank Fowler

Joseph Randall

Catherine Turner

Jayson Warner Smith

Earl Fowler

General Childs

Young John Clarke

John Clarke Turner

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The Birth of a Nation (2016) is about 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.

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Nate Parker directed The Birth of a Nation (2016).

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