تدور أحداث الفيلم قبل وعقب الحرب الأهلية الأمريكية، ويرتكز الفيلم حول عائلتان متحابتان لأبعد الحدود، وهما عائلة (ستونمان) من الشمال وعائلة (كاميرون) من الجنوب, وعلاقات الحب والصداقة بين أفرادها، التي تتلاشى شيئًا فشيئًا بسبب الحرب الأهلية التي تجبرهم على قتال بعضهم البعض وسط ميادين القتال.

Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites.

A short documentary about the making of D. W. Griffith's controversial 'The Birth of a Nation'.

The film depicts, in an anecdotal, quasi-anthropological style, the efforts of a group of men in a desert to achieve some kind of social organisation. An opening title locates the action in Morocco, in 1911, the date evidently refers to the work of D.W. Griffith.

Short animation from Poland. Directed by Kamil Polak. Polak’s Narodziny Narodu (The Birth of a Nation) won the III prize of the Wiesbaden Film Festival in 2002.

In "Birth of a Nation", Jem Cohen takes his camera to Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration and to the next day’s protests.

Documentary on the Somali Democratic Republic and the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party government.