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The Birth of a Nation

Cast

Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper View All


Crew

Frank E. Woods (Screenplay), D. W. Griffith (Director), D. W. Griffith (Writer) View All

Release: Feb. 8th, 1915
Runtime: 3 hours, 10 minutes
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
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michaelcorleone
This is a glorious landmark, and to allow its vision to be marred by the fact that it’s a typical product of 1915 would be a shame..
KeyserCorleone
It might have something to do with the movie's strange history, or maybe it's the fact that it's a three-hour silent movie with in-the-know rep in general, or maybe it has something to do with the confidence I feel at this point in my life to judge this movie properly.


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