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The Birth of a Nation - Special Edition [Blu-ray] | ![The Birth of a Nation - Special Edition [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51I2N4RsO0L.jpg) | Director: D.W. Griffith
Actors: Lillian Gish, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Ralph Lewis
Studio: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.95
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Sales Rank: 18306
Format: NTSC, Silent
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 187 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 5.4 x 0.8
UPC: 738329083526
EAN: 0738329083526
ASIN: B005J7K9CI
Release Date: November 22, 2011
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Product Description
Lillian Gish, Henry B. Walthail. This epic story of two families during the Civil War and Reconstruction is a landmark in American motion pictures. Directed by D.W. Griffith. Silent with original music score. 1915/b&w/3 hrs., 7 min/NR.
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A pivotal moment in film history. After The Birth of a Nation, nothing was the same: not the way audiences watched movies, not the way filmmakers created them. D.W. Griffith's jumbo-size saga of the Civil War expanded the boundaries of storytelling on the screen, conveying a richer, more complicated (and certainly longer) tale than anyone had seen in a movie before. The delicate relationships, the sad passage of time, the spectacular battle scenes all look as fresh and innovative today as they did in 1915. So do Griffith's brilliant actors, most of them--including favorite leading lady Lillian Gish--drawn from his regular stock company. What has become increasingly problematic about The Birth of a Nation is Griffith's condescending attitude toward black slaves, and the ringing excitement surrounding the founding of the Ku Klux Klan. Griffith, whose political ideas were naive at best, seemed genuinely surprised by the criticism of his masterwork, and for his next project he turned to the humanist preaching of the massive Intolerance. Despite protests, Birth sold more tickets than any other movie, a record that stood for decades, and President Woodrow Wilson famously compared it to "history written in lightning." That judgment has lasted. --Robert Horton
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