MOVIE · 2016
The Birth of a Nation
Drama120 min
In 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner is an enslaved preacher whose owner sends him from plantation to plantation to calm other enslaved people, even as the violence around him keeps mounting. Nate Parker is Turner, a literate man forced to use his faith in service of slavery, while Armie Hammer's Samuel Turner profits from his sermons. As Nat witnesses abuse inflicted on his community and on his wife Cherry (Aja Naomi King), he begins organizing an uprising aimed at freedom.
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