The rather extensive violence appears only in the form of a few reenactments, whether fictive, hypothetical or factual. The extent of the gore is a single severed head, beaten and bloodied, and most of the gore in the film is not graphic. The behind-the-scenes view of some of these reenactments are briefly shown.
A man is chased down by four armed men, and later bound at the hands, dragged thereby a rope. One of the captors hits him in the head with the stock of a musket. The captive is then tied to a tree, and one of the captors aims a musket right at him and fires. They begin attacking the body. The dead man's severed head is later shown to another captive.
A man uses an axe or hatchet to strike and chop an awakened man laying in bed, killing him with a single blow to the head. The woman sharing the same bed as the chopped and bloodied man awakes and screams. She immediately meets the same fate as her bedfellow.
A woman is chased and stabbed multiple times in the back by a man. She falls to the ground. A small amount of blood is visible around the at exit wound of her chest, as she had been almost completely run through. She begs to be finished off and is then bludgeoned to death with a log while out of frame.
A drawing of a nearly-naked man hanging from a chain attached to a large hook run through the side of his abdominal region from which blood flows and intestines perhaps protrude is shown. There are human skulls impaled on a pikes in the background of the picture.
A man is publicly executed: hanged from a tree as the platform upon which he stands upon is hauled away by horses, in front of dozens of spectators. In a shot of his legs and feet, he can be seen squirming or struggling, as he invariably is strangled.
Various footage of the dispersal or suppression of civil rights demonstrators by police in the 1950s is shown, including that of civilians being threatened by dogs or hosed down by high-power water cannons operated by firefighters.
A man has a musket pointed at man armed with a sabre: a sort of cinematic recreation of the famous 1876 wood engraving illustration of Benjamin Phipps capturing Nat Turner; "Discovery of Nat Turner" by William Henry Shelton. A colorized picture of the actual engraving is also shown.
The slaughtering of men, women and children including little babies, is discussed, with mention of horribly mutilated people including children. The dismemberment of rebels and the taking home of their body parts as souvenirs or trophies is mentioned.
Within a reenactment of a 1937 interview, a tale account of a man, despite his great emotional struggle to do so, murdering a baby by "slinging" the baby is given.
Two men, while casually conversing, work on butchering a dead pig suspended from an apparatus by its hind legs. The pig's neck had been slit and the pig drained. One of the men begins to cut away at the open neck, before the scene ends.
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