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- Original title
- The Birth of a Nation
- Year
- 1915
- Duration
- 190 minutes
- Country
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USA - Director
- DW Griffith
- Script
- D. W. Griffith , Frank E. Woods (Novel: Thomas F. Dixon Jr.)
- Music
- Silent Movie (Joseph Carl Breil , D. W. Griffith)
- Photography
- G. W. Bitzer (B&W)
- Distribution
- Lillian Gish , Mae Marsh , Henry B. Walthall , Miriam Cooper , Mary Alden , Ralph Lewis , George Siegmann , Walter Long , Robert Harron , Wallace Reid , Joseph Henabery , Elmer Clifton , Josephine Crowell , Spottiswoode Aitken , George Beranger
- producer
- David W. Griffith Corp.
- Gender
- Drama . Warlike | Historic . 19th century . Civil War . Racism . epic cinema . Silent movie
- Synopsis
- Silent film classic that narrates the most important events of the creation of the United States of America: the civil war, the assassination of Lincoln, etc. It has been branded as racist for its glorification of the Ku Klux Klan, but it has the merit of being the first film to tell a story in a coherent way: until then a film was a set of scenes with very little relation to each other. It was hugely successful in its time. (FILMAFFINITY)