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6 lut 2017 · Birth of a Movement, based on Dick Lehr’s book The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights, captures the backdrop to this prescient clash between human...
In this video from The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, learn about the film The Birth of a Nation. This 1915 silent film was adapted from the novel The Clansman, which dramatized southern life in the period of Reconstruction.
D.W. Griffith's 1915 Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation, with its groundbreaking camerawork -- including close-ups, night photography, and tracking shots -- transforms forever...
This media gallery from INDEPENDENT LENS: "Birth of a Movement" introduces students to the controversial silent film The Birth of a Nation. Historians and journalists discuss the plot of the film—a historically inaccurate retelling of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
The Birth of a Nation was a 1915 silent film, directed by D.W. Griffith, fictionalizing the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction. At the time of its release, it was considered a pioneering artistic achievement in the history of cinema.
In 1915, civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood.
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 .
