The Birth of a Nation

1915
PG
3h 15m

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La guerre de Sécession. Deux familles éprouvées : les Stoneman (nord) et les Cameron (sudistes). Lincoln est assassiné. Le trouble nait des politiciens véreux et des Noirs livrés à eux-mêmes... Tout lireLa guerre de Sécession. Deux familles éprouvées : les Stoneman (nord) et les Cameron (sudistes). Lincoln est assassiné. Le trouble nait des politiciens véreux et des Noirs livrés à eux-mêmes. Le Ku Klux Klan nait, justicier et vengeur.La guerre de Sécession. Deux familles éprouvées : les Stoneman (nord) et les Cameron (sudistes). Lincoln est assassiné. Le trouble nait des politiciens véreux et des Noirs livrés à eux-mêmes. Le Ku Klux Klan nait, justicier et vengeur.

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- 2 victoires au 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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Anecdotes
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.

Gaffes
Car tire tracks are visible in the KKK segment.

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

Générique farfelu
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.

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

Connexions
Edited into The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1932)

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show it in my American History classes

I am a Ph.D. candidate in American History. I show BOAN (as does most American history professors) to my undergrads. Not only is it an accurate portrait of the propaganda being written in the 1870s, but it is a primary source document on how people in the 1870s and 1910s saw African Americans. Anyone wonder why the Civil Rights movement happened, or why lynchings happened, or why ML King, Jr.was assassinated? Well, watch BOAN and you'll get an insight into that most American of institutions, racism. Why is there racial hatred today, because of the rhetoric of hate by the people who made BOAN and the people who are depicted in it. If they affect you still, shouldn't know what they said? Especially if you find it abhorrent, watch it. It is also a good reminder of how distorted history can be made to look legitimate on celluloid.