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The Birth of a Nation

September 2019

  • american skin

    American Skin review: Nate Parker is noble victim in compromised comeback

    The discredited director one-time smash The Birth of a Nation returns in grubby, flagrant style with this story of a fabulous janitor fighting back against police brutality

May 2019

  • 1915, THE BIRTH OF A NATION<br>LILLIAN GISH Character(s): Elsie Stoneman Film ‘THE BIRTH OF A NATION’ (1915) Directed By D.W. GRIFFITH 08 February 1915 CTF19399 Allstar/DAVID W. GRIFFITH CORP. (USA 1915) / Literaturverfilmung (based on the book “The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan” by Thomas F. Dixon Jr.) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of DAVID W. GRIFFITH CORP. and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To DAVID W. GRIFFITH CORP. is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Lillian Gish: should a great actor be judged by a racist film?

    Pamela Hutchinson
    An Ohio cinema has removed ‘Gish’ from its name due to her role in notorious 1915 film The Birth of a Nation. Cultural myopia – or proof of newly enlightened times?

March 2018

  • Nate Parker.

    Birth of a Nation director Nate Parker to make comeback after rape controversy

    The director, whose debut suffered after his acquittal from a 1999 rape charge was publicised, returns with a film about an LAPD homicide detective

April 2017

  • Tom Hanks in Sully

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Sully; The Birth of a Nation; Four Days in France and more – review

    A lighter hand on the controls might have helped Clint Eastwood’s film about the Miracle on the Hudson, but Nate Parker’s account of a 19th-century slave rebellion is just a macho mess

January 2017

  • Oscars 2017: Live by Night, Long Halftime Walk, Miss Sloane and The Birth of a Nation

    Nah Nah Land: the hyped films that failed to get any Oscar nominations

    From Ben Affleck’s Live by Night to Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, many stars have seen their awards-hyped films fall at the first hurdle this year

December 2016

  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

    Box office analysis: UK
    Rogue One opens well in the UK – but not quite as well as Fantastic Beasts

  • Actor Nate Parker poses at the premiere of his new film "Non-Stop" in Los Angeles, California, U.S. February 24, 2014. REUTERS/Fred Prouser/File Photo

    Nate Parker and The Birth of a Nation lands six nominations at NAACP Image awards

  • Armie Hammer as Samuel Turner, Nate Parker as Nat Turner and Jayson Warner Smith as Earl Fowler in The Birth of a Nation.

    The Birth of a Nation review – hardly revolutionary

  • Mel Gibson at this year’s Venice film festival.

    Mel Gibson defends Nate Parker: 'I don't think it's fair'

  • Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    The Birth of a Nation review – biblical passion and cheesy emotion

  • The difficult delivery of Nate Parker's The Birth Of A Nation

November 2016

  • In this image released by Paramount Pictures, David Oyelowo portrays Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a scene from "Selma," a film based on the slain civil rights leader. The 50th anniversary of the historic civil rights marches in Selma and the hit movie that tells the story are expected to bring thousands of visitors to this Alabama city. Visitors can still walk across the bridge where voting rights marchers were beaten in 1965 and visit the churches where they organized the protests. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, Atsushi Nishijima)

    Selma is 100% historically accurate but Imitation Game just 41.4%, says study

  • Lanre Bakare

    Moonlight deserves Oscar buzz, but it can't be this year's token black film

    Lanre Bakare

October 2016

  • Director and actor Nate Parker, centre, in The Birth of a Nation. Fox Searchlight paid $17m for the film, but the US box office has been disappointing.

    Nate Parker's Birth of a Nation expected to lose millions for Fox

  • Catherine Shoard

    Hollywood, sometimes the truth is better than fiction

    Catherine Shoard
  • Nate Parker leading the rebellion as Nat Turner in The Birth of a Nation.

    Film blog
    The Birth of a Nation: how Nate Parker failed to remake history

  • Emily Blunt appears in a scene from The Girl on the Train.

    Box office analysis: US
    The Girl on the Train steams past Birth of a Nation at US box office

  • New York first-night moviegoers shrug off The Birth of a Nation controversy

  • Anti-rape activists hold silent vigil outside Birth of a Nation screenings

  • Nate Parker criticizes rape case coverage: 'Do they care about anyone involved?'

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