Birth of a Nation
The film Birth of a Nation was directed by D. W. Griffith, written by Thomas F. Dixon Jr. and music produced by Joseph Carl Breil. It is a docu-drama and was released in 1915 and has been shown to have secured the future of feature length films. The film premiered on February 8, 1915 in Riverside, California.
The film was shown in two parts. Part one shows pre-Civil War America introducing two families. The Northern Stonemans, consisting of abolitionist Congressman Austin Stoneman, his two sons, and his daughter, Elsie, and the Southern Camerons, a family including two daughters, Margaret and Flora, and three sons, most mentioned one was Ben Camron.
The eldest Stoneman boy falls in love with Margaret Cameron, and Ben Cameron is in love with Elsie Stoneman. When the war begins, all of the boys join certain armies. A Black militia attacks the Cameron house, almost trapping all the Cameron women, who are rescued when Confederate soldiers find the Black militia.......
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