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With: Gabrielle Union • Armie Hammer • Jackie Earle Haley • Penelope Ann Miller • Nate Parker • Dwight Henry • Aunjanue Ellis • Kevin Turen • Aaron L. Gilbert • Jason Michael Berman • Aja Naomi King • Preston L. Holmes • Esther Scott • Roger Guenveur Smith
Companies: Searchlight Pictures • Bron Studios
Set against the antebellum South, The Birth of a Nation follows Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities - against himself and his fellow slaves - Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
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