El nacimiento de una nación

Título original: The Birth of a Nation

1915
A
3h 15min

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La familia Stoneman ve como su amistad con los Cameron es afectada por la Guerra Civil, ya que ambos luchan en ejércitos opuestos.La familia Stoneman ve como su amistad con los Cameron es afectada por la Guerra Civil, ya que ambos luchan en ejércitos opuestos.La familia Stoneman ve como su amistad con los Cameron es afectada por la Guerra Civil, ya que ambos luchan en ejércitos opuestos.

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Premios
- 2 premios ganados en total

Abraham Lincoln
(as Jos. Henabery)

Elmer Clifton

Phil - Stoneman's Elder Son

Josephine Crowell

Mrs. Cameron

Spottiswoode Aitken

Dr. Cameron

George Beranger

Wade Cameron - The Second Son
(as J.A. Beringer)

Maxfield Stanley

Duke Cameron - The Youngest Son
(as John French)

Jennie Lee

Mammy - The Faithful Servant

Donald Crisp

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

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Trivia
President Woodrow Wilson is famously rumored to have responded to the film with the remark: "It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true." After the film became subject of controversy due to its heroic portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan, Wilson denied through his press secretary as to having known about the nature of the film before screening it at the White House, or having ever endorsed it. Nevertheless, Wilson's published works as a historian are closely aligned with the film's negative portrayal of Reconstruction (some of his writings are even quoted onscreen in certain prints of the film). Wilson was also notably a consistent pro-segregationist as President.

Errores
Car tire tracks are visible in the KKK segment.

Citas
intertitle: While youth dances the night away, childhood and old age slumber.

Créditos curiosos
The following was listed in the opening credits: A PLEA FOR THE ART OF THE MOTION PICTURE: We do not fear censorship, for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue - the same liberty that is conceeded to the art of the written word - that art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.

Versiones alternativas
In both 1921 and 1927, edited versions of the film were released to reflect current political viewpoints.

Conexiones
Edited into The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1932)

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Fascinating, expensive movie.

This movie had the stockholders quaking when they saw the costs mount. It was the most expensive movie made up to that time, and it shows that silent films really COULD create spectacle on a grand scale.

One of the posters remarked on how ridiculous the Klansmen's hoods looked. Actually, the original "ghost costumes" were all homemade and there was no standardized uniform- some had spikes on the head, horns, painted faces on the masks, etc.

I myself had an ancestor who was a member of the Reconstruction Ku Klux Klan, and they saw themselves as guerilla fighters against an occupying power, not as terrorists. Today we can condemn them. At the time, it must have seemed to them that the war was over, but that the battle lines were still firmly drawn.

This film is a good peek into the attitude of the general public in 1915 about Reconstruction. It became a national obsession, and probably gave impetus to Col. William Joseph Simmons's decision to "resurrect" the Klan in that year.