The Birth of a Nation

(2016)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 584 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2016

Runtime: 120 мин

Country: Canada, United States of America

Director: Нейт Паркер

Cast: Нейт Паркер, Арми Хаммер, Аджа Наоми Кинг, Джэки Ерл Хейли, Пенелопа Энн Миллер, Габриэль Юнион, Марк Бун мл., Онжаню Эллис, Dwight Henry, Эстер Скотт

Plot

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.

Set against the antebellum South, "The Birth of a Nation" follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher whose financially-strained owner, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), 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.