Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The birth of a nation / produced under the personal direction of D.W. Griffith [& Harry E. Aitken] ; story arranged by D.W. Griffith and Frank E. Woods.

Publisher, Date:

Narberth, PA : Alpha Video, 2005.

Description:

1 videodisc (192 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

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.

Series:

Alpha Video classics

Alpha video classics.

Subjects:

Ku Klux Klan (19th century) -- Drama.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Drama.

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Silent films.

Historical films.

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