The Birth of a Nation (1930 Sound Reissue) PG
The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: June 17, 2014
- Originally Released: 1930
- Label: Grapevine Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Lillian Gish & Henry B. Walthall | |
| Directed by | D.W. Griffith |
Entertainment Reviews:
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56%
The civil war battle pictures, taken in panorama, represent enormous effort and achieve a striking degree of success.
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New York Times
The biggest challenge the film provided for its audiences is perhaps to decide when 'ground-breaking, dedicated, serious cinematic art' must be reviled as politically reprehensible.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation is as much a part of film history as the Civil War is a part of American history.
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Common Sense Media
The quasi-Victorian Griffith was in so many respects way ahead of his time even if his philosophy and mind-set could often be said to be behind it.
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Guardian
Rating: 4/4 --
A film that deserves, no demands, to be acknowledged, if for no other reason than to come to terms with the racist history it represents.
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From the Front Row
Rating: 3/5 --
The Birth of a Nation has become a staple of any film studies course, for its excellent performances, thrilling action sequences and epic landscapes. However it's subject matter is much more controversial now.
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Empire Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
A towering milestone in the history of cinema. Asentimentalised, reactionary slab of racism. Can a film be both? In the case of D.W. Griffith's silent-era classic The Birth Of A Nation, unfortunately it can.
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Total Film
Description by OLDIES.com:
The 1930 reissue of D.W. Griffith's 1915 controversial cinematic masterpiece. This drama follows two families, the Northern Stoneman family and the Southern Cameron family, through the horrors of the Civil War to the hardship of the Reconstruction Era to the eventual rise of the KKK. 104 minutes presented with the reissued soundtrack including synchronized music and sounds effects Adapted from the Thomas F. Dixon Jr. novel: "The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan"
Keywords:
Civil War
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Classic
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Race Relations
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Silent
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Vintage
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History
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Assassination
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Recommended
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Period Piece
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Silent Cinema
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Essential Cinema
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 128,070
- UPC: 842614106545
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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