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The Birth of a Nation is important insofar as any narrative about slavery, race, or other parts of America’s dark past is. Films in this tradition are valuable because they...
Feb 8, 2015 · The Birth of a Nation is three hours of racist propaganda — starting with the Civil War and ending with the Ku Klux Klan riding in to save the South from black rule during the Reconstruction...
Sep 12, 2016 · The Birth of a Nation works best when its story is told most simply, without too many strained poetic images—at one point, after a devastating event, Parker’s camera closes in on an ear of corn...
Dec 13, 2015 · Culture Desk. A Hundred Years Later, “The Birth of a Nation” Hasn’t Gone Away. By Allyson Hobbs. December 13, 2015. A century after its release, “The Birth of a Nation” still...
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Mar 14, 2016 · African American writer James Weldon Johnson wrote in 1915 that The Birth of a Nation did “incalculable harm” to Black Americans by creating a justification for prejudice, racism, and discrimination for decades to follow.
Feb 7, 2015 · By Thomas Doherty. February 7, 2015 11:38am. The Birth of a Nation Still - H 2015. Courtesy of Photofest. The calendar delivers an invitation to pause and observe — not celebrate — the 100th...
by Steven Mintz. In 1915, fifty years after the end of the Civil War, D. W. Griffith released his epic film Birth of a Nation. The greatest blockbuster of the silent era, Birth of a Nation was seen by an estimated 200 million Americans by 1946.
