Directed by:
D.W. GriffithScreenplay:
D.W. GriffithCinematography:
G.W. BitzerCast:
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann, Walter Long, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, Joseph Henabery (more)Plots(1)
The Birth of a Nation begins depicting the amiable relationship between two families, Northern and Southern, and the way in which the impending Civil War intensifies the conflict of their worldviews. Following the end of the war and the assassination of President Lincoln, a lawless chaos courses throughout the Reconstruction South, and the Ku Klux Klan is formed to take on a rising black militia and impose a vengeful vigilante justice across their land and "birthright". It's a film that's deeply divisive even to the senses of a single viewer: images of painterly beauty in composition and tonal quality often exhibit a contemptuous, inflammatory coarseness with regard to subject matter; just as frequently, long tracts evince an innocent, terrifically lyrical grandeur. (Eureka Entertainment)
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The Birth of a Nation
Label: Label X
Year: 1995
Country: Australia
Format: CD
Length: 56:02
| 1. | Bringing The African To America / The Abolitionists / Austin Stoneman / Elsie Stoneman | Joseph Carl Breil | 04:00 |
| 2. | The Old South | Joseph Carl Breil | 00:54 |
| 3. | In The Southland | Joseph Carl Breil | 03:30 |
| 4. | Boys At Play | Joseph Carl Breil | 01:22 |
| 5. | Cotton Fields (In The Gloaming) / Love Strain | Joseph Carl Breil | 03:05 |
| 6. | Stoneman Library / Lydia Brown | Joseph Carl Breil | 03:30 |
| 7. | Flag Of The Confederacy (Bonnie Blue Flag) | Joseph Carl Breil | 00:57 |
| 8. | Day Break / The Cameron Family | Joseph Carl Breil | 01:55 |
| 9. | 2 1/2 Years Later / Flora Cameron | Joseph Carl Breil | 02:12 |
| 10. | The Battle Between The States | Joseph Carl Breil | 09:08 |
| 11. | Lincoln's Assassination | Joseph Carl Breil | 03:05 |
| 12. | Starting The Ferment | Joseph Carl Breil | 06:20 |
| 13. | Rhapsodies Of Love | Joseph Carl Breil | 02:57 |
| 14. | Election Day / Aftermath | Joseph Carl Breil | 04:32 |
| 15. | Riot In Master's Hall / The Grim Reaping Begins | Joseph Carl Breil | 05:40 |
| 16. | Ride Of THe Klansmen & Triumph | Joseph Carl Breil | 02:55 |