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Feb 6, 2015 · Tom Brook reports. One hundred years after it was made The Birth of a Nation still has the power to both enthrall and appall. The film is as confounding as ever, both brilliant and repugnant....
Mar 24, 2022 · "The Birth of a Nation" climaxes with the Klan, hooded on horseback, rushing to the rescue of a white woman who is being attacked by a Black man.
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Feb 1, 2013 · February 1, 2013. The release of “Django Unchained,” and the discussion surrounding it, have brought “Birth of a Nation”—D. W. Griffith’s disgustingly racist yet titanically original 1915...
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...
Feb 23, 2016 · It's been a century since the opening of D.W. Griffith's controversial and monumental work The Birth of a Nation. The first showing of the film took place at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles on February 8, 1915.
Feb 4, 2015 · There were no Academy Awards in 1915, but if there had been, The Birth of a Nation would likely have swept every category. Griffith turned controversy into commercial success, smashing box office records and capturing the imagination of millions of viewers.
Dec 13, 2015 · Set mostly in South Carolina, “The Birth of a Nation” offered a wildly distorted view of Reconstruction, the period that followed the Civil War, by picturing African-Americans as faithful ...
