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The Birth of a Nation
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The film tells the story of the Civil War and the reconstruction through the eyes of two families. The war divides friends and destroys families, but that's still nothing when compared to the anarchy in the black-ruled South after that.
The film tells the story of the Civil War and the reconstruction through the eyes of two families. The war divides friends and destroys families, but that's still nothing when compared to the anarchy in the black-ruled South after that.
Actors:
Maxfield Stanley,
Howard Gaye,
Jennie Lee,
George Beranger,
Joseph Henabery,
Walter Long,
Henry B. Walthall
Maxfield Stanley
1880, England, UK
Howard Gaye
23 May 1878
Jennie Lee
4 September 1848, Sacramento, California, USA
George Beranger
27 March 1893, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Joseph Henabery
15 January 1888, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Walter Long
5 March 1879, Nashua, New Hampshire, USA
Henry B. Walthall
16 March 1878, Shelby City, Alabama, USA
Country:
United States
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August 19, 2013
This is an impressive spectacle, rightfully lauded for its myriad innovations. But the sentiments it expresses are pretty damn ugly.
August 19, 2013
The quasi-Victorian Griffith was in so many respects way ahead of his time even if his philosophy and mind-set could often be said to be behind it.
February 06, 2008
Griffith's later films are unquestionably superior. But here, in a very real sense, is where the movies began, both as an art and as a business.
August 19, 2013
It's hard to applaud a film where the Ku Klux Klan rides triumphantly to the rescue, and this, alas, undoes all the sterling work put in earlier and the wonderful performances from Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B Walthall and especially Robert Harron.
New York Times
March 25, 2006
The civil war battle pictures, taken in panorama, represent enormous effort and achieve a striking degree of success.
September 21, 2014
D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation is as much a part of film history as the Civil War is a part of American history.
August 19, 2013
Problematically, Birth of a Nation wasn't just a seminal commercial spectacle but also a decisively original work of art -- in effect, the founding work of cinematic realism, albeit a work that was developed to pass lies off as reality.
August 19, 2013
A towering milestone in the history of cinema. Asentimentalised, reactionary slab of racism. Can a film be both? In the case of D.W. Griffith's silent-era classic The Birth Of A Nation, unfortunately it can.
February 09, 2006
The biggest challenge the film provided for its audiences is perhaps to decide when 'ground-breaking, dedicated, serious cinematic art' must be reviled as politically reprehensible.
August 19, 2013
The Birth of a Nation has become a staple of any film studies course, for its excellent performances, thrilling action sequences and epic landscapes. However it's subject matter is much more controversial now.
February 06, 2008
Birth of a Nation is a great epoch in picture making; it's great for pictures and it's great for the name and fame of David Wark Griffith. When a man like Griffith in a new field can do what he has done, he may as well be hailed while he is living.
April 20, 2003
It is an unavoidable fact of American movie history, and must be dealt with.