BIRTH OF A NATION

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• Release Year: 1915
• Genre: Classic, Drama
• Plot: The Birth of a Nation made headlines from the day it opened in Los Angeles on February 8, 1915. It became the most successful silent film ever made, grossing over $10 million in its first run; and today, more than eighty years later, it remains America's most controversial cinematic landmark.; ; From the start, the public and the press were fascinated by the audacity and bravura technical achievement of D.W. Griffith's film. Griffith had turned a lurid, negrophobic play called 'The Clansman' into a three-hour Civil War epic that in sweep and scope set a standard for film spectacle and absorbing historical melodrama. The accompanying publicity campaign set standards too - for flamboyance, race-baiting and inventiveness.
• Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann, Walter Long, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, Joseph Henabery, Elmer Clifton, Josephine Crowell, Spottiswoode Aitken, George Beranger, Maxfield Stanley, Jennie Lee, Donald Crisp, Howard Gaye, Tom Wilson, Monte Blue, Bobby Burns, Edmund Burns, Edward Burns, Fred Burns, David Butler, Peggy Cartwright, William E. Cassidy, Dark Cloud, Lenore Cooper, Sam De Grasse, William De Vaull, Charles Eagle Eye, John Ford, Alberta Franklin, William Freeman, Gibson Gowland, Olga Grey, D.W. Griffith, Fred Hamer, Russell Hicks, Walter Huston, Charles King, Alberta Lee, Elmo Lincoln, Donna Montran, Eugene Pallette, Vester Pegg, Alma Rubens, Allan Sears, Charles Stevens, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Raoul Walsh, Jules White, Violet Wilkey, Mary Wynn, Thomas F. Dixon Jr., Frank E. Woods, H.E. Aitken, G.W. Bitzer, James Smith, Rose Smith, Joseph Carl Breil, Frank Wortman
• Director: D.W. Griffith
• Runtime: 3:07
• Company: Image Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie