The Birth of a Nation
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Actor: Elmer Clifton, George Beranger, Mary Alden, Miriam Cooper, Spottiswoode AitkenBrand: Image Entertainment
Primary Contributor: Lillian Gish
Primary Contributor: Mae Marsh
Primary Contributor: Walthall, Henry B.
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Silent
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 165 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-11-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Birth of a Nation
Movie Review: Defective product DVD.I have reported it on line and verbally. by phone.
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw it a few years ago.[...]I saw it a few years ago.
Griffith's movie is sympathetic to Lincoln,viewing him as a friend of the south and shown in a kindly light,pardoning prisoners,etc.Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals" addss details that I never knewon this.
The movie concludes with Webster's commnet"Union and Freedom:Inseparable".which can be construed in many ways.
The movie is best known showing the Klan riders like avenging angels ,hooded,on horseback,striving to save Lillian Gish's honor against THEM.Notre Dame showed it but leaned over backwords to be "politicall correct".Lincoln is attacked more by the LEFT than right nowadays.
Summary of The Birth of a Nation
Based on a play called "The Clansmen," D.W. Griffith's three-hour Civil War epic traces the development of the Civil War itself, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan through the lives of two families.A pivotal moment in film history. After The Birth of a Nation, nothing was the same: not the way audiences watched movies, not the way filmmakers created them. D.W. Griffith's jumbo-size saga of the Civil War expanded the boundaries of storytelling on the screen, conveying a richer, more complicated (and certainly longer) tale than anyone had seen in a movie before. The delicate relationships, the sad passage of time, the spectacular battle scenes all look as fresh and innovative today as they did in 1915. So do Griffith's brilliant actors, most of them--including favorite leading lady Lillian Gish--drawn from his regular stock company. What has become increasingly problematic about The Birth of a Nation is Griffith's condescending attitude toward black slaves, and the ringing excitement surrounding the founding of the Ku Klux Klan. Griffith, whose political ideas were naive at best, seemed genuinely surprised by the criticism of his masterwork, and for his next project he turned to the humanist preaching of the massive Intolerance. Despite protests, Birth sold more tickets than any other movie, a record that stood for decades, and President Woodrow Wilson famously compared it to "history written in lightning." That judgment has lasted. --Robert Horton
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