The Birth Of A Nation [1915]

1915 / Drama / Silent / 187min 

Main Cast: 
Lillian Gish .... Elsie Stoneman 
Mae Marsh .... Flora Cameron 
Henry B. Walthall .... Col. Ben Cameron 
Miriam Cooper .... Margaret Cameron 
Mary Alden .... Lydia Brown 
Ralph Lewis .... Austin Stoneman 
George Siegmann .... Silas Lynch 
Walter Long .... Gus 
Robert Harron .... Tod Stoneman 
Wallace Reid .... Jeff (blacksmith) 
Joseph Henabery .... Abraham Lincoln/13 other bits 
Elmer Clifton .... Phil Stoneman 
Josephine Crowell .... Mrs. Cameron 
Spottiswoode Aitken .... Dr. Cameron 
George Beranger .... Wade Cameron 

Description: Two brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. This friendship is affected by the Civil War, as the Stonemans and the Camerons must join up opposite armies. The consequences of the War in their lives are shown in connection to major historical events, like the development of the Civil War itself, Lincoln's assassination, and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan. 

A controversial, offensive, explicitly racist, but landmark American film film - these all describe ground-breaking producer/director D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). The domestic melodrama/epic originally premiered with the title The Clansman in January, 1915 in California, but three months later was retitled with the present title at its world premiere in New York, to emphasize the birthing process of the US. 
Its release set up a major censorship battle over its vicious, extremist depiction of African Americans, although Griffith naively claimed that he wasn't racist at the time. Unbelievably, the film is still used today as a recruitment piece for Klan membership - and in fact, the organization experienced a revival and membership peak in the decade immediately following its initial release. And the film stirred new controversy when it was voted into the National Film Registry in 1993, and when it was voted one of the "Top 100 American Films" (at # 44) by the American Film Institute in 1998.

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