The Birth of a Nation

Review: Birth of a Nation

Posted 10 years ago

This review was originally posted at the Sundance Film Festival in January – long before the Nate Parker controversy. As such, it's not addressed in the review. PLOT: The true story of slave Nat Turner (Nate Parker) who led a...

The JoBlo.com 2016 Fall Movie Preview

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Well folks, the summer movie season may be over, but Hollywood isn’t letting up on the massive amount of movies hitting theaters. To be honest, the summer was largely underwhelming, something which I actually figured might happen when doing...

Birth of a Nation director Nate Parker got directing advice from Mel Gibson

Posted 10 years ago

When it comes to acting in, producing, writing and directing your own movie I can imagine that there’s a bit of stress involved. This is especially true for men like Nate Parker, who sat behind the director’s chair for the...

The strong rise up in this trailer for The Birth of a Nation

Posted 10 years ago

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...

New poster for Birth of a Nation runs red with the blood of freedom fighters

Posted 10 years ago

The first feature film from actor-turned-director Nate Parker follows Nat Turner, a former slave in America who leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites. 20th Century Fox has...

Experience the powerful trailer for The Birth of a Nation

Posted 10 years ago

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...