‘Birth Of A Nation’ Electrifies Sundance Crowd In World Premiere (Nat Turner Revolt)

Deadline Hollywood ^ | January 25, 2016 | Dominic Patten

[C19fan]

“Without an honest confrontation, there is no healing.” That’s from Birth Of A Nation director-producer-star Nate Parker today onstage at the Sundance Film Festival. In what I have to say was one of the most emotional experiences I’ve had at a movie theater, Parker world premiered what he called his seven-year “passion project.” His telling of the early 19th century slave revolt led by Nat Turner had audience members crying in their seats and jumping to their feet in a prolonged standing ovation at the film’s conclusion.

[BenLurkin]

[Autonomous User]

I think I watched Blacula on the Svengoolie show some years back.

[Tired of Taxes]

As per my college history prof many years ago, they murdered mostly women and children, including infants. They even came across a school and murdered the children there. Wonder if that's in the movie...

Slavery was brutal. Of course the enslaved should revolt. But this particular revolt was horrendous. Plus, it backfired - while Turner was hiding, many innocent slaves were killed in retaliation.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember, back about 1967, when this book had America in an uproar, for a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Confessions_of_Nat_Turner

The original Confessions.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/turner/turner.html

[BenLurkin]

The Confessions of Nat Turner is a good read. I recommend it.