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The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Director D.W. Griffith's historical saga recounts the genesis of the U.S. Civil War, the destruction it wrought upon the populace, and the social ills spawned by Reconstruction, including the ascent of the Ku Klux Klan. The story plays out in the intertwining fates of two fictional families -- the Northern Stonemans and the Southern Camerons. Though the film's legacy is stained by its racist content, it remains a landmark in filmmaking technique.
| Release Date: | March 3rd, 1915 |
| Running Time: | 125 minutes |
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| Written By: |  | Thomas F. Dixon Jr. |
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| The Birth of a Nation Movie Review by Pizza (6/22/2009) |
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A Classic in every sense of the word. These injudicious rumblings about "racist" content are simply rubbish. These misguided rubes are judging a movie made in the early 1900's by year 2009 standards. (silly thing to do). It's not even a talkie. It's a silent film. Historically it's very accurate. The carpetbaggers raped...
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| The Birth of a Nation Movie Review by Movie Addict (4/5/2009) |
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It was an epic when it was made, and still a work of art in cinema history.
The first part show the "gentile" South and the war. It was romanticized to the extent that brother was fighting brother, friend was fighting friend, and in meeting during the war, they remained friends. Nice, but probably not accurate. Still, it...
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| The Birth of a Nation Movie Review by Bobby B (4/4/2008) |
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This disgusting piece of malevolent propaganda has not only been given a free pass over the years but has been lauded as one of the great works of film, even listed in the National Registry, despite its egregious short-comings. The frustrating part of this equation is that I am well aware that my criticism of the film...
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| The Birth of a Nation Movie Review by Jarrod (8/31/2007) |
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When it comes to 'Birth of a Nation', D.W. Griffith's landmark silent epic from 1915, I have to say I have found it more offensive than most of my black friends, who have watched it with me and ridiculed its blatant and unapologetic racism, a sheer reflection of its time, made by a southern-born director who had a...
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| The Birth of a Nation Movie Review by Terrence (5/13/2007) |
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The Birth of a Nation
The film is great. The film is an outstanding technical achievement for the time. And the modern techniques used to tell story on film where first displayed here. The usage of transitioning shots inter cut with action which today is now call a jump cut (especially the actions scenes) was a technique...
(complete The Birth of a Nation review by Terrence)
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