The Birth of a Nation - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "The Birth of a Nation"

The Birth of a Nation (2016)

Timing: 2:0 (120 min)

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THE BIRTH OF A NATION: Official HD Trailer | Watch it Now on Digital HD | FOX Searchlight

English

2:37

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Pусский

2:10

What's left behind the scenes

The slave rebellion depicted in the film took place in Southampton County, Virginia, from August 21-23, 1831.
Filming took 27 days.
Fox Searchlight Pictures paid $17.5 million for the worldwide distribution rights to the film. This is the largest deal of its kind in the history of the Sundance Film Festival, where Nate Parker's film premiered on January 22, 2016.
Nate Parker invested $100,000 of his own savings into making the film.
Nate Parker began writing the screenplay about Nat Turner (1800-1831) in 2009.
Canadian film director, producer, and actor Norman Jewison, a three-time Academy Award nominee, attempted to get a film about Nat Turner into production as early as 1969.
Filming took place in Savannah, Georgia.
Some episodes were filmed on the grounds of a former plantation between Springfield and Clio, approximately 50 kilometers north of Savannah.
Following the film's premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, director Nate Parker cut approximately 20 seconds of footage from the picture.
The film states that the catalyst for the rebellion was the rape of Nat Turner’s wife by white men, but Turner himself never claimed to be married. There is evidence that Turner’s owner married him to a slave named Cherry, but Turner never acknowledged this marriage. He himself wrote that visions led to the slave uprising. As one historian wrote: “In his seventh vision, Nat Turner saw a holy war and decided that he was destined to lead a rebellion against the oppressors.”
At the beginning of the film, a doctor examines the boy and speaks in Chwi, one of the dialects of the Akan language, common in Ghana.
The film was titled as an ironic reference to the racist 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation".

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