The birth of a nation
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The birth of a nation
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The work The birth of a nation represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.
- Label
- The birth of a nation
- Statement of responsibility
- produced under the personal direction of D.W. Griffith [& Harry E. Aitken] ; story arranged by D.W. Griffith and Frank E. Woods
- Title variation
- D.W. Griffith's 1915 masterpiece
- Subject
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- 1861-1877
- Drama
- Feature films
- Feature films
- Historical films
- Historical films
- History
- Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
- Ku Klux Klan (19th century) -- Drama
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Drama
- Silent films
- Silent films
- United States
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Drama
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Recounts the events leading up to and immediately fter the Civil War. Ben Cameron, a brave yet disillusioned Confederate soldier, creates a covert group of impassioned Southerners called the Ku Klux Klan as an answer to the supposed problem of the rise and rule of blacks and carpetbaggers. Bent on revenge, Ben leads his KKK followers in a war to suppress the black threat to white society, ultimately restoring "order" to his beloved South
- Cataloging source
- UAI
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Credits note
- Photography, G.W. Bitzer
- Dewey number
- 813.52
- Language note
- Silent film with English intertitles; music sound track added in 1992
- LC call number
- PS3507.I93
- LC item number
- C5 2005
- PerformerNote
- Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Ralph Lewis, Wallace Reid, Henry Walthall
- Runtime
- 192
- Series statement
- Alpha Video classics
- Technique
- live action
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