Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Death of a Nation
Scored from 137 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza presents a polemical documentary drawing parallels between the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump, while arguing that the modern Democratic Party shares ideological roots with fascism and white nationalism. The film mixes historical reenactments, interviews, and commentary to challenge mainstream narratives about race and politics in America.
Death of a Nation (2018) is a film IMDb files under the documentary and history genres.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. 137 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 151 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 412 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Death of a Nation lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2010s (13,059 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 137.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
