Oscar Favorite 'The Birth of a Nation' Second Trailer is Here

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By Darian Scalamoni

We just wrote an article providing you with a trailer for a festival hit from Cannes, but now we have a trailer for a movie that won the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Other winners of this award include Like Crazy, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Precious and Whiplash. Today, we have for you the trailer for The Birth of a Nation directed, written and starring Nate Parker.

            The film follows Nat Turner (Parker), a literate slave and preacher who leads an uprising against his master and others in the antebellum South. The movie looks incredibly violent and emotional, similar to 2014 Best Picture winner, 12 Years a Slave. You can tell how much Parker dedicated to this film as it doesn’t shy away from reality or beat around the bush at all. It also is an Oscar favorite as of the current race and I believe it’ll be nominated for Best Picture based on the trailers. This is one of my most anticipated movies of the year.

            The Birth of a Nation also stars Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley, Dwight Henry and Gabrielle Union. The film opens on October 7^th.