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What is The Birth of a Nation?
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.
- Type
- Film
- Year
- 2016
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 120 minutes
- Release date
- Sep 9, 2016
- Studios
- Tiny Giant Entertainment, Bron Studios, Mandalay Pictures
- Genres
- Drama
- Updated
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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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Cast
Nate Parker
Nat Turner
Armie Hammer
Samuel Turner
Aja Naomi King
Cherry
Jackie Earle Haley
Raymond Cobb
Penelope Ann Miller
Elizabeth Turner
Gabrielle Union
Esther
Mark Boone Junior
Reverend Zalthall
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Nancy Turner
Dwight Henry
Isaac Turner
Esther Scott
Bridget Turner
Roger Guenveur Smith
Isaiah
Jeryl Prescott
Janice