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The Birth of a Nation

The Untold Story of Nat Turner

Rating 6.6 / 10Release September 9, 2016Runtime 120 min

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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