Birth of a Nation
(1915)
Directed by D. W.
Griffith this film based on the novel “The Clansman” stars
Lillian Gish and Henry B. Walthall. Two families are divided by the
US civil war and the reconstruction of the South.
To get the obvious out
of the way this film is massively racist and throws a lot of history
out of the window in an attempt to promote it's racist revisions. A
lot of the first hour of the film is superfluous to the
plot and could probably have been cut as the film is a real slog
to get through. Technically there are a lot of innovations in the
film and a lot of the action sequences are really impressive for the
period but this does little to mitigate the content.
1/5
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