'The Birth of a Nation' Trailer: Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion, Dramatized

FUSE TV - 'The Birth of a Nation' Trailer: Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion, Dramatized

Sundance Film Festival attendees this year bore rapturous witness to The Birth of a Nation, which took home both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. Now it's bound for wide release on October 7, and the first trailer's a vivid example of why the date's worth circling on your calendar. 

The clip showcases the type of breathtaking cinematography and unsentimentalized period-piece authenticity that characterized 12 Years a Slave, which won three Oscars in 2014, including Best Picture. You'll have a hard time shaking the image of a little black girl frolicking with a little white girl holding a leash-like noose loosely looped around the former's neck. Such haunting usage of Nina Simone's "Strange Fruit," as well.

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Turner Risk - Trailer

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Copwatch - Trailer

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Blueprint - Trailer

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Transcendent - Trailer

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