The largest
slave rebellion in U.S. history took place in the New Orleans area in January 1811.
Other times the societies he fought against destroyed him: the vengeful Detective Jim McLeod getting shot by a perp whose life he ruined in William Wyler's Detective Story (1951); Colonel Dax being sent back to the front by the World War One military brass he dared to defy in Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957); Spartacus getting crucified for leading
a slave rebellion in Kubrick's Spartacus (1960).
«The Birth of a Nation» is the true - life story of Nat Turner (played by Parker), best known for leading the most successful
slave rebellion in U.S. history.
It must crush the soul of an actor, though, to have people shouting the name of a wisecracking bear at him on the day his movie about
a slave rebellion in Haiti opens.
Parker stars in his own directorial debut as Nat Turner, a devoutly religious slave who becomes a traveling preacher — and, eventually, the leader of the bloodiest
slave rebellion in American history.
The film tells the true story of slave and preacher Nat Turner, who led
a slave rebellion in 1831.
Not exact matches
The Lord's Resistance Army, a cult guerrilla army engaged
in an armed
rebellion against the Ugandan government, has been accused of using child soldiers and committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, porters and sex
slaves.
Birth of a Nation tells the story of Nat Turner, a
slave and Christian preacher who led a
rebellion in 1831.
At the time of the Revolution, statutes
in most of the colonies prescribed hanging for about a dozen offenses — among them murder, treason, piracy, arson, rape, robbery, burglary, sodomy and (
in some cases) counterfeiting, horse theft and
slave rebellion.
But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred
in aid of insurrection or
rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any
slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Because the lives of these ant
slaves are so hopeless — they have no chance to reproduce, after all — scientists long assumed they would find no benefit
in rebellion.
In 1865 it was the starting point of the Morant Bay Rebellion, the only major peasant revolt (as distinguished from slave rebellions and worker uprisings), in Jamaican histor
In 1865 it was the starting point of the Morant Bay Rebellion, the only major peasant revolt (as distinguished from
slave rebellions and worker uprisings),
in Jamaican histor
in Jamaican history.
«The Birth of a Nation» Lowdown: Nate Parker's directs and stars
in this true story about a former
slave that sparks a
rebellion against white
slave owners
in Virginia
in 1831.
In 2014, Whiplash took both awards, and this year we have another film taking the two honors as Nate Parker «s
slave rebellion tale The Birth of a Nation was announced to receive both.
Starring Aja Naomi King as Nat's wife, Armie Hammer as his
slave master, and Colman Domingo as his right - hand man
in the
rebellion, plus supporting turns from Jackie Earle Haley, Penelope Ann Miller, Aunjanue Ellis, Mark Boone Jr., Roger Guenveur Smith, and Gabrielle Union, «Birth» provides no clear villains, instead delivering nuanced portraits of classic arcs.
Based on a true story, «Free State of Jones» will star McConaughey as Newton Knight and Mbatha - Raw as Rachel, a
slave whose relationship with Knight played a central part
in his life and
in his armed
rebellion against the Confederacy during the Civil War.
The story of Nat Turner, who led a
rebellion of
slaves and free black men
in 1831, the film stars Nate Parker (who also directed and co-wrote the film), Gabrielle Union and Jackie Earle Haley.
Produced, Written, and Directed by Nate Parker, the film tells the story about Nat Turner, a
slave who led a
rebellion in 1831 Virginia.
With a screenplay by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo, Spartacus tells the story of a
slave trained to kill
in the arena who leads other
slaves in rebellion.
Nat Turner, who led an aborted
rebellion against his
slave owners
in 1831, is the subject of a Pulitzer prize - winning novel by William Styron, «The Confessions of Nat Turner.»
The film — directed and written by Nate Parker, who also stars
in the lead role — focuses on the story of Turner, the Virginia
slave who led a
rebellion against
slave owners
in 1831.
Nate Parker wrote, directed and stars
in «The Birth of a Nation» as Nat Turner, who led a
rebellion of
slaves in Virginia
in 1831.
Chris Rock plays Andre Allen, the star of a film about a 19th - century
slave rebellion,
in the profane and very funny comedy «Top Five.»
Nate Parker wrote, directed and stars
in this drama about
slave rebellion leader Nat Turner, which sold for a record $ 17.5 m at this year's Sundance film festival
Parker's passion and skill comes through most succinctly
in the film's third act, as the
slave rebellion is finally realized.
WHAT: After witnessing his young nephew killed while fighting on the front line of the Civil War, army medic Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and runaway
slaves in a
rebellion against the local Confederate Army.
Aja Naomi King's movie ascendancy as the
slave girl Cherry
in Nate Parker's blazing battle cry, The Birth of a Nation (based on the Nat Turner
rebellion of 1831), is a complete boomerang from the role that made her television rep.. After an assortment of credits
in film («Positive Polly»
in Whit Stillman's Damsels
in Distress and Rosa
in the underseen comedy The Rewrite) and
in prime - time series such as Emily Owens, M.D. and The Blacklist, King was whisked aboard the mother ship of Shondaland's How to Get Away with Murder, starring the inviolable Viola Davis.
This is a biopic of Nat Turner, a
slave who led a
rebellion in 1830s Virginia, and is the feature debut of actor - turned - writer - director Nate Parker.
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The combination of history, art, and impassioned commentary will draw kids
in to the questions raised by Brown's narrative paintings that show what it was like to be a
slave — the suffering, anger, defiance, endurance, and
rebellion under unspeakable conditions.
The
rebellion began
in the late hours of August 21 when Turner and his fellow
slaves murdered their master, Benjamin Travis and his family.
I see men
in split breeches and bloody longcoats and they talk, but blood comes out of their mouths and good heavens that
slave rebellion was such ghastly business and that queen has of course been of bloody awful use ever since the West India Company began their rather shoddy decline compared to the East and why are there so many negroes taking to sleeping so unsoundly wherever they see fit and confound it all I seem to have misplaced the left half of my face.
So far (I'm about two - thirds finished), the major event
in the novel has been the Haitian
slave rebellion led by Toussaint Louverture at the turn of the 18th century.
These hinterlands are the homeland of Ruso's
slave, Tilla, who has scores of her own to settle there: Her tribespeople are fomenting a
rebellion against Roman control, and her former lover is implicated
in the grisly murder of a soldier.
Starting out at Fond Gens Libre — or «Village of the Free People», named after the freedom fighters who took refuge there
in the 1748
slave rebellion — you'll walk past colorful flora and fauna as you take
in the gasp - inducing views.
Munch's Oddysee carries many similar themes and mechanics to Abe's Oddysee, including the planned extinction of a species, rescuing
slaves and test subjects, and the ability to take control of your enemies, but expands massively with the option to switch characters at any time, pick up and throw objects, swim
in water, and use new GameSpeak to incite
slave rebellions, native uprisings and lab rat revolutions.
Jemison's works at MASS MoCA are also inspired
in part by «The Confessions of Nat Turner,» an 1831 interview with the leader of the legendary
rebellion of
slaves and free blacks
in Virginia.
Scott, for example, is recruiting 500 people for a
slave rebellion re-enactment next fall
in Louisiana.
Born Alalia Chetwynd, she changed her name to the leader of a
slave rebellion against Rome
in 73 BC on her 33rd birthday.
A new exhibition displays Atlanta - based artist Hale Woodruff's series of six murals for Talladega College, Alabama, one of the first colleges established for African - American people
in the United States, depicting noteworthy historical events including the Amistad
slave rebellion and the opening of the college.
He is currently working on
Slave Rebellion Reenactment, a project that will reenact the largest
rebellion of enslaved people
in North American history.
They worried that the latter would result if enslaved Africans learned about the existence of a successful
slave rebellion that culminated
in the emergence of a state outside of Africa, ruled by free Africans.