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The Birth of a Nation (full film) The Birth of a Nation, originally called The Clansman, [5] 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.
Mar 3, 2015 · Produced for $100,000 and charging a top price of $2 (when tickets to most movies cost a dime), Birth was the seminal blockbuster of the silent-film period and the most widely seen of all motion...
- Richard Corliss
Jan 22, 2010 · Based on the novel The Clansman (1905) by Thomas Dixon, the two-part epic traces the impact of the Civil War on two families: the Stonemans of the North and the Camerons of the South, each on separate sides of the conflict.
Dec 13, 2015 · “The Birth of a Nation” was a landmark in motion picture history—full of technological innovations and new storytelling techniques, including flashbacks, crosscutting, dissolves, closeups,...
- Allyson Hobbs
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 era.
An ad in the Riverside Enterprise of December 30 heralded The Clansman In mid-October of 1914 D.W. Griffith finished as 'the greatest of all motion pictures' and said it was shooting The Birth of a Nation (then known as The made by D.W. Griffith, 'the world's foremost motion Clansman) and began work on his next feature, picture producer', and th...
Feb 4, 2015 · Wilson wasn’t the only critic enraptured by Griffith’s masterpiece. “A great epoch in picture making,” crowed Variety. Others were just as enthusiastic: the New York Globe called The Birth of a Nation “beyond doubt the most extraordinary picture that has been seen” or made in America so far.
