The Birth of a Nation, 1915. A white-supremacist perspective of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Directed by D.W. Griffith. Written by Griffith, & Frank E. Woods, based books by Thomas F. Dixon Jr. Starring Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, & George Siegmann.
(estimated ratings, as I didn't finish the movie)
Enjoyment: The first 90 minutes are an okay movie. Hateful, yes, but not much more so than most films from the first half of the century that happen to touch on racial issues. And the big battle sequence is impressive even by today's standards. But then the second half starts, and suddenly the movie is nothing but racist propaganda. I couldn't take more than a half hour of it, and I feel sorry for everyone who's ever watched more than that. F
(Estimated) GPA: 1.6/4
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