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List Price: $29.95 Our Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.96 Features • Black & White • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Silent • NTSC In Theaters : 03 March, 1915 DVD Release : 10 December, 2002 |
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The Birth of a Nation & The Civil War Films of D.W. Griffith description A pivotal moment in film history. After The Birth of a Nation, nothing was the same: not the way audiences watched movies, not the way filmmakers created them. D.W. Griffith's jumbo-size saga of the Civil War expanded the boundaries of storytelling on the screen, conveying a richer, more complicated (and certainly longer) tale than anyone had se ... review details |
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| Viewing this movie is kind of like what it would be to see a sculpture by Michelangelo glorifying rape or verse by Shakespeare aggrandizing murder...
To say today that we cannot recognize the wrongs of the past or their depiction in art or literature is not an elevation of free speech but rather a limitation on our free speech. We not only have the right but the duty to recognize what was wrong in the past and call it for what it was. In this film D.W. Griffiths attempted to dramatically portray the justifiable rise of the Ku Klux Klan. Its release and presentation resulted in a sort of segregationist passion play that both spiked Klan membership (which peeked at over a million in the mid 1920s) and reinvigorated violence against African Americans (including a sharp rise in lynchings in the American south). The film premiered during the administration of Woodrow Wilson who resegregated the American military (which had originally been desegregated under Abraham Lincoln and would not again be desegreated until the administration of Harry S Truman). It accompanied a phenonomenal rolling back of the clock for American egalitarianism and helped set the stage for what would become another fifty years of injustice for African Americans. To be sure, watch the movie and witness its technical accomplishments. But beware of the evil that occurs when genius is placed in service of madness. Learn from history to better avoid its errors. |
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