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- It is the tale of Nat Turner, a slave on a Virginia plantation, who uses the word of God to initiate a rebellion against the ruthless plantation owners. Based on actual events, it is a powerful and inspirational story of freedom, dignity, and the horrors of oppression and hate.
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The plot of The Birth of a Nation revolves around two families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon Line who become friends when their sons board together at school. The Stonemans, the Northern family, live in Washington, D.C., and own a rural getaway in Pennsylvania.
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Jan 22, 2010 · Based on the novel The Clansman (1905) by Thomas Dixon, the two-part epic traces the impact of the Civil War on two families: the Stonemans of the North and the Camerons of the South, each on separate sides of the conflict.
Jun 23, 2019 · Summary: A US Civil War (1861–65) drama, Birth of a Nation centres on two white families, the Camerons from the South and the Stonemans from the North. Before the war, during a visit of the Stonemans to the Camerons, Ben Cameron falls in love with Elsie Stoneman, and Phil Stoneman with Margaret Cameron.
Oct 9, 2024 · Released in 1915, The Birth of a Nation was initially titled The Clansman, but Griffith changed the title to reflect the broader theme of the nation’s “birth” after the Civil War, presenting the reunion of North and South as a heroic achievement. The American Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, was marked by numerous bloody battles that ...
Summaries. The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Plot. Part 1: Civil War of United States. The film's portrayal of the Siege of Petersburg, led by Ben Cameron. Phil, the elder son of the Stonemans (a Northern family), falls in love with Margaret Cameron (the daughter of a Southern family), during a visit to the Cameron estate in South Carolina.
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.
