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English. Budget. $8.5 million [2] Box office. $16.8 million [2] The Birth of a Nation is a 2016 historical drama film written and directed by Nate Parker in his directorial debut. It is based on the story of Nat Turner, the enslaved man who led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.
Oct 14, 2016 · Uses Fact and Fiction. Nat Turner (Nate Parker) in The Birth of a Nation. Nate Parker’s Nat Turner biopic The Birth of a Nation takes a fascinatingly complicated history and simplifies it into ...
- Rebecca Onion
Nate Parker is the author of the book Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement in which he writes about the resistance against oppression. The first half of his book is about Nat Turner’s slave rebellion in the 19th century, and the other half explores the historical context of his rebellion and how it is relevant to modern ...
Jan 26, 2016 · Certain to be the most widely discussed and rousingly received film in the U.S. dramatic competition at Sundance this year, “The Birth of a Nation” comes to us at a particularly fortuitous ...
Oct 7, 2016 · October 7, 2016. One of the words most commonly used to describe Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation is “important.”. The word seemed less fraught when the movie, which tells the story of ...
- Gillian B. White
Oct 6, 2016 · “The Birth of a Nation” tells the story of the slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831. Nate Parker directs, writes and stars, and the film arrives following controversy over a ...
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Oct 7, 2016 · Parker named his movie after 1915’s The Birth of a Nation.The three-hour long silent film was the first movie screened inside the White House, to the delight of director D. W. Griffith and ...
