故事描述于1831年，黑人牧师奈特于美国弗吉尼亚洲，率领黑奴解放非裔美国人的自由运动，最终成为引发内战爆发的导火线。

《国家的诞生》以解放后的动荡时期为背景，是一部具有时尚风格的黑帮黑色作品。

一户“疯子”家人在小小的屋塔房上宣言建立了一个新的国家，超乎预料的奇异举动频发。广阔、酷爽、性感的屋塔房建国故事就在这里。

美国南北战争时期，南方庄园主卡梅伦一家原本过着安逸的生活。卡梅隆和斯通曼家的孩子同在一所寄宿学校念书，接触中，年轻的本杰明·卡梅隆和埃尔西·斯通曼（丽莲·吉许 饰）互生情愫。然而不久南北战争爆发。本杰明参加了南方军队，奔赴前线，与北方的昔日好友斯通曼成了敌手。战后，黑人烧杀抢掠。本杰明组织三K党，对黑人进行报复，粉碎了建立所谓的“黑人王国”的阴谋。本杰明与埃尔西这对患难情侣也终于走到了一起。他们的结合，预示着一个新的国家的诞生和统一。 这部由美国电影巨匠D·W·格里菲斯编导的长达三个多小时的鸿篇巨制《一个国家的诞生》，是世界电影史上最重要的里程碑式电影，也是默片时代的经典之作。本片因为对白人优越主义的提倡，以及对三K党的美化而颇具争议性。

One hundred and sixty portraits or rather appearances, sketches and glimpses of avant-garde, independent filmmakers and film activists between 1955 and 1996. Why BIRTH OF A NATION? Because the film independents IS a nation in itself. We are surrounded by commercial cinema Nation same way as the indigenous people of the United States or of any other country are surrounded by Ruling Powers. We are the invisible, but essential nation of cinema. We are Cinema.

《一个国家的诞生》展现了一段精彩的历史时期，这一时期与基督教在古罗斯地区的出现和传播息息相关。观众将了解到当时人们的观念和宗教信仰是如何演变的，它们具体包含哪些内容，政治心态是怎样变化的，以及我们如今所知的古俄罗斯文化和精神……

In 1998, seven years after the independence of the country, autocratic president Kazakh Noursoultan Nazarbaiev decides to move the capital of Almaty to Astana, the barren plains of the north. Vertiginous towers of glass rise above ground, financed by oil exports. A presidential speech in 1997 on the future of Kazakhstan opens the film, praising the “three social levels, the rich, the middle class and the poor”, and the infinite promises of the market. Christian Barani and Guillaume Reynard see the birth of a new social level, in the standardized tinsel and foil of richness. Attempting to represent “the fiction which in each scene seems to have preceded reality”, until a change of scene by writer Darejan Omirbaev, they also venture backstage, a hut on a site of a recently expropriated maisonnette. A portrait of a melancholic person and poetic globalization through the ex-Soviet oligarchy, in full expansion.

《国家的骄傲》是《无耻混蛋》中电影院播放的一部短片，是德国人用来鼓舞士气的，讲述了一个德国狙击手的英勇事迹。