3.5 out of 5 stars. “The Birth of a Nation” is the title of D.W. Griffith’s landmark 1915 film, a movie that remains controversial thanks to its heroic portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan.  Filmmaker Nate Parker applied that same title to his 2016 film about the 1831 slave uprising led by Nat Turner in […]

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