After "Birth"

Reviled for his racist Civil War epic, film pioneer D.W. Griffith tried his hand at the American Revolution.

by J.R. Jones



america Directed by D.W. Griffith Earlier this month, when NewSouth Books announced it would republish The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with all 219 instances of the word nigger replaced by slave, I was reminded of The Birth of a Nation (1915), D.W. Griffith's landmark movie of the Civil War and Reconstruction.…

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