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Birth Of A Nation / The Clansman
© David W. Griffith Corp. - all rights reserved |
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8.67
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Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Miriam Cooper
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Directed by:
D.W. Griffith 
Written by:
D.W.Griffith, Frank E. Woods, from Thomas Dixon Jr's novel The Klansman
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| Released: |
1915 |
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ACTION
DRAMA
ADVENTURE
IMPORTANT
SILENT
WAR
EPIC
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Colour: |
BW |
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| Length: |
157 |
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ANTI Reviews
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| | Whatever happened during Reconstruction, this film is aggressively vicious and defamatory. It is spiritual assassination. It degrades the censors that passed it and the white race that endures it. | | | | (Francis Hackett, New Republic) | | An impressive film - if one can suspend one's brain-power right through its tortuous duration and believe that the freed Negro is inevitably a cross between an anarchist and an animal while the Southern woman is unimpeachably an angel in taffeta and human disguise. This theory is made especially hard to take when Southern sainthood is personified in the poisonous sweetness of Lillian Gish, every inch the smarmy charmer who'd get a monumental kick out of setting up a sub-human ex-slave on a sex assault charge. | | | | (Julie Burchill, Girls on Film, 1986) | | The film is as dull as it is absurd, and its racial views were even then backward-looking. | | | | (David Shipman, The Good Film and Video Guide, 1986) | | Hard going for anybody but the most dedicated film student. | | | | (Simon Rose, Essential Film Guide, 1993) |
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