The Birth of a Nation
January 26, 2011The Birth of a Nation
Call Number: DVD00682
by D W Griffith; Frank E Woods; G W Bitzer; Lillian Gish; Mae Marsh; Ralph Lewis; Wallace Reid; Henry B Walthall; Thomas Dixon; Alpha Video Distributors.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Narberth, PA : Alpha Video, 2005
Notes: Approx. 192 min. Black and white. Silent film. Originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1915. Based on the novel The Clansman, by Thomas Dixon.
Summary: Recounts the events leading up to and immediately fter the Civil War. Ben Cameron, a brave yet disillusioned Confederate soldier, creates a covert group of impassioned Southerners called the Ku Klux Klan as an answer to the supposed problem of the rise and rule of blacks and carpetbaggers. Bent on revenge, Ben leads his KKK followers in a war to suppress the black threat to white society, ultimately restoring “order” to his beloved South
OCLC #: 60756779
Added: January, 26 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
