Birth of a Nation
 For
better and worse, Birth of a Nation is Griffith's finest work and a
landmark of American cinema.
Huge: 12,500 feet, 165 minutes long, over 13,000 individual shots.
One of the most widely seen and profitable films of all
time, it makes use of the new camera techniques and scene cross-cutting.
Deeply offensively and profoundly racist, BoaN
tells the story of how the KKK saved America. It was certainly
responsible for the revival of the KKK in 1915 and shaped US attitudes
toward race and history for at least one, and maybe several generations.
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