The Birth of a Nation

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The Birth of a Nation (premiered with the title The Clansman) is a 1915 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith. Set during and after the American Civil War, the film was based on Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, a novel and play. The Birth of a Nation is noted for its innovative camera techniques and narrative achievements, and its status as the first Hollywood "blockbuster." It has provoked great controversy for promoting white supremacy and positiv... more
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  • 1915

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  • 3 h 10 min

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  • The Clansman

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D. W. Griffith

David Llewelyn Wark Griffith (January 22 1875 – July 23, 1948) was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance (1916). Griffith, of Welsh ancestry, was born...

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  • The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan
  • Lincoln's Assassination. The fatal blow that robbed the South of its best friend.
  • The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!
  • The dawn of a new art!

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  • 3 h 10 min
  • at 16 fps

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  • 110,000
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The Clansman

The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is the title of a novel published in 1905. It was the second work in the Ku Klux Klan trilogy by Thomas F. Dixon, Jr. that included The Leopard's Spots and The Traitor. It was influential in providing the mythology and ideology that helped...
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