Film· 1915· Drama

The Birth of a Nation

by D. W. Griffith

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The Birth of a Nation

The story of two families, the Northern Stonemans and the Southern Camerons, through the American Civil War and Reconstruction, which the film notoriously presents as a time of Black misrule ended by the heroic rise of the Ku Klux Klan.