The Birth of a nation [DVD] ; and the Civil War films of D.W. Griffith / D.W. Griffith presents ; produced under the direction of D.W. Griffith ; produced for video by David Shepard ; supplemental disc produced by Bret Wood ; story arranged by D.W. Griffith and Frank E. Woods.
Videodisc release of the 1915 motion picture. Based on the novel The clansman, by Thomas Dixon. Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, Bessie Love, Elmo Lincoln, Raoul Walsh, Donald Crisp, Ralph Lewis.
Summary:
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.
Series:
Griffith masterworks
OCLC:
(OCoLC)51328061
Locations:
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)
YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)
GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)
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