Lillian Gish
Elsie Stoneman
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Summaries. The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Birth of a Nation, originally called The Clansman, is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr. 's 1905 novel and play The Clansman .
Nov 21, 2023 · The Birth of a Nation, released in 1915, is both a cinematic masterpiece and an appalling homage to white supremacy. The first movie ever screened at the White House, it introduced innovations in...
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Mar 30, 2003 · As a nation once able to reconcile democracy with slavery, America has a stain on its soul; to understand our history we must begin with the contradiction that the Founding Fathers believed all men (except black men) were created equal.
Feb 4, 2015 · Rife with visions of intimidation, voter suppression, and racial division, The Birth of a Nation is less a facsimile of Civil War history than of 1915 itself. The movie’s bleak vision of a grasping, corrupt black electorate who steals votes, coerces women, and sullies the honor of white manhood is mirrored in how the film stole from, coerced ...
Its story includes the events leading up to the nation's split; the Civil War era; the period from the end of the Civil War to Lincoln's assassination; the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era detailing the struggle over the control of Congress during Andrew Johnson's presidency and actions of the Radical Republicans to enfranchise the freed ...
