US 190m Silent BW
Director: D. W. Griffith
Producer: D. W. Griffith
Screenplay: Frank E. Woods, D. W. Griffith, from the novel The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan, the novel The Leopard’s Spots, and the play The Clansman by Thomas F. Dixon Jr.
Photography: G. W. Bitzer
Music: Joseph Carl Breil, D. W. Griffith
Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden
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Simultaneously one of the most revered and reviled films ever made, D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation is important for the very reasons that prompt both of those divergent reactions. In fact, rarely has a film so equally deserved such praise and scorn, which in many ways raises the film’s estimation not just in the annals of cinema but as an essential historic artifact (some might say relic). Continue reading ‘3. The Birth Of A Nation (1915)’



