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The Birth of a Nation, landmark silent film starring Lillian Gish, released in 1915, that was the first blockbuster Hollywood hit. It was the longest and most-profitable film then produced and the most artistically advanced film of its day.
The silent film The Birth of a Nation (1915) was the longest and most-profitable film produced at the time and the most artistically advanced film of its day. An epic about the American Civil War (1861–65) and the Reconstruction era that followed, it has long been praised for its technical and dramatic innovations but condemned for the racism ...
The Birth of a Nation. Scene from The Birth of a Nation (1915), directed by D.W. Griffith. 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.
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 ...
Scene from The Birth of a Nation (1915), directed by D.W. Griffith.
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His epic dramas The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916) greatly influenced later filmmakers. After cofounding United Artists Corp. in 1919, he directed Broken Blossoms (1919), Way Down East (1920), and Orphans of the Storm (1921).
