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Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation • 9m 34s

Directed by Jem Cohen • 2017 • United States

BIRTH OF A NATION is Jem Cohen’s record of Donald Trump’s 2017 presidential inauguration and the protests that followed it.

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