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Sep 3, 2024 · The gates open, and these medieval-looking, fully armed people emerge onto… a New York street in the year 1848, where another similarly armed group of people awaits them, ready for battle.
Aug 31, 2024 · D.W. Griffith - Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Filmmaker: In 1913 Griffith left Biograph and entered into an agreement with Mutual Films for the direction and supervision of motion pictures. From this association, among other films, came The Birth of a Nation.
- Robert M. Henderson
Sep 4, 2024 · The film, a liberally fictionalized account of the 1831 slave uprising led by Nat Turner, was instantly anointed an Oscar front-runner. Then the press decided...
- Rick Kisonak
Sep 2, 2024 · It was like a classic family feud story between the Stonemans up North and the Camerons down South. As the movie is nearing its end, you think that this movie is cheering on the abolitionist Stonemans, but does a total 180 and at the remaining 30 or so minutes the bad guys, Ku Klux Klan, win against the army of all black soldiers.
Aug 29, 2024 · When the film opened in March 1915, retitled The Birth of a Nation, it was immediately pronounced “epoch-making” and recognized as a remarkable artistic achievement. The complexity of its narrative and the epic sweep of its subject were unprecedented, but so too were its controversial manipulations of audience response, especially its ...
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Aug 28, 2024 · But that wasn’t the case when The Birth of a Nation was released on February 8, 1915. In just over three hours, D.W. Griffith’s controversial epic film about the Civil War and Reconstruction depicted the Ku Klux Klan as valiant saviors of a post-war South r...
