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The birth of a nation

The birth of a nation

DVD 1998

A Civil War spectacular that portrays life in the South during and after the Civil War. The story depicts the war itself, the conflict between the defeated Southerners and emancipated renegade blacks, 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.

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Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) Drama
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Drama
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Description:
1 videodisc (187 min.) : sound, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in
polychrome
digital
optical
stereo
Dolby
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
Target Audience Note:
CHVR: Not rated
Notes:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1915
Based on the novel: The clansman by Thomas Dixon
Director/producer, D. W. Griffith ; writers, D. W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods ; photography, William Bitzer ; original score, Joseph Breil ; score compiled and reorchestrated by R.J. Miller
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden
DVD, dual-layer, NTSC, region 1, Dolby digital
Silent, with music and English intertitles
Control Number:
525521
UPC:
014381467420
Other Authors:
Alden, Mary, 1883-1946
Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944
Breil, Joseph Carl, 1870-1926
Cooper, Miriam, 1891-1976
Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946. Clansman
Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993
Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948
Marsh, Mae, 1895-1968
Miller, R. J
Walthall, Henry B. (Henry Brazeale), 1878-1936
Woods, Frank E
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