The Dark Side of Classic Cinema | The Birth of a Nation - 1915 (HD)

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The Birth of a Nation - 1915 (HD) | Controversial film. The Birth of a Nation, originally called The Clansman, is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play The Clansman. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay with Frank E. Woods and produced the film with Harry Aitken.
The Birth of a Nation - 1915 (HD) | Controversial film. Caution

The following movie doesn't represent our channel values, because contains stereotypes that were wrong when it was created and still being wrong today. Nevertheless, has been included in our portfolio to show the harmful impact that could produce the seventh art in that period. The mistakes of the past should be a lesson to learn, and cultivate a more inclusive future for all.
The film shows how, even in 1915, the wounds of the Civil War in the United States were still healing, wounds that were then finally healed, paradoxically, by a nobel cause fighting a common enemy, during the First and Second World Wars...

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