The Birth of a nation and the Civil War films of D.W. Griffith
(2002, original release: 1915)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/DRAMA/BIRTH

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/DRAMA/BIRTH Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Kino on Video, [2002]
©2002
DESCRIPTION

2 videodiscs (187 min.) : sound, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
6307399732 K266
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Videodisc release of the 1915 motion picture

A Civil War spectacular. Portrays life in the South during and after the Civil War as revealed in a story depicting the war itself, the conflict between the defeated Southerners and emancipated renegade Negroes, the despoiling of the South during the carpetbagger period, and the revival of the Southern white man's honor through the efforts of the Ku Klux Klan

Based on the novel The clansman, by Thomas Dixon

Director, D.W. Griffith ; writers, D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods ; photographer, William Bitzer ; original score by Joseph Carl Breil ; supplemental music composed and performed by Jon C. Mirsalis

Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, Bessie Love, Elmo Lincoln, Raoul Walsh, Donald Crisp, Ralph Lewis

DVD

Silent dialog with music

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