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#6,361 All-time worldwide
#205 2016 releases

Movie profile

The Birth of a Nation

2016 · 120 min · Tiny Giant Entertainment

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $15.9M
Budget $8.5M
Gross minus budget $7.4M
ROI 1.87x

Domestic gross

$7.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$7.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Birth of a Nation ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #6,361 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2016 releases #205 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2016. Primary genre #2,604 Drama of 5,859 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did The Birth of a Nation (2016) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Birth of a Nation (2016) earned a reported $15.9M worldwide against a reported $8.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $7.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.87x. In this database it currently ranks #6,361 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #205 among 2016 releases.

Worldwide gross
$15,861,566
Budget
$8,500,000
Gross minus budget
$7,361,566
ROI
1.87x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

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.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 9, 2016
Production
Tiny Giant Entertainment, Bron Studios, Mandalay Pictures
Countries
CA, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyTiny Giant Entertainment Release year chart2016 box office Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2016, The Birth of a Nation is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Tiny Giant Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $15.9M, reported production budget is $8.5M, gross-minus-budget is $7.4M, ROI is 1.87x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,361 all-time in the current chart set and #205 among 2016 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.