Birth Of A Nation
Griffith co wrote the screenplay with frank e.
Birth of a nation. The development of the war in their lives plays through to lincoln s assassination and the birth of the ku klux klan. With nate parker armie hammer penelope ann miller jackie earle haley. Describing the reconstruction era the film adapts quotations from a history book written by woodrow wilson an adherent of the dunning school. It is based on the story of nat turner the enslaved man who led a slave rebellion in southampton county virginia in 1831 the film stars parker as turner with armie hammer mark boone junior colman domingo aunjanue ellis aja naomi king dwight henry jackie earle haley.
With the official opening of the film under the title the clansman at clune s auditorium in los angeles on february 8. Directed by nate parker. Nat turner a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum south orchestrates an uprising. The birth of a nation was a sensation after its release in 1915.
The stoneman family finds its friendship with the camerons affected by the civil war both fighting in opposite armies. Griffith s controversial epic. The birth of a nation originally called the clansman is a 1915 american silent epic drama film directed by d. The birth of a nation was released on 8 february 1915.
With lillian gish mae marsh henry b. But that wasn t the case when the birth of a nation was released on february 8 1915. In 1913 griffith left biograph and entered into an agreement with mutual films for the direction and supervision of motion pictures. The birth of a nation overpowers its narrative flaws and uneven execution through sheer conviction rising on nate parker s assured direction and the.
Griffith the birth of a nation and intolerance. From this association among other films came the birth of a nation. The birth of a nation is a landmark of film history. In just over three hours d w.
The birth of a nation critics consensus. Woods and produced the film with harry aitken. A century later it s regarded as a landmark in cinema history and terribly bigoted.