2006-06-11 18:24:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Nazi propaganda BS
2006-06-11 18:27:01 · answer #1 · answered by xtowgrunt 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was a travesty but an important piece of film history.
The film attempts to provide historical justification for segregation. In the sympathetic depiction of the lynching of a black man by a white mob, the film affirms and promotes the cultural milieu for the rise of the Ku Klux Klan which led mobs of white people wearing white sheets and hoods over their faces in the lynching of Black people.
The film was based on Thomas Dixon's novels The Clansman and The Leopard's Spots.
The Birth of a Nation has been linked to the second emergence of the Ku Klux Klan, which was revived the year of the film's release after a period of non-existence.
Another example of Life Imitating Art?
Or Art for Art's Sake?
I just read that this one of President Woodrow Wilson's, a well known racist, favorite films.
Go figure.
2006-06-11 18:36:49 · answer #2 · answered by Muinghan Life During Wartime 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's an old film that has had its time.
2006-06-11 18:29:37 · answer #3 · answered by the Goddess Angel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a sin against this country. Thankfully, someone realized it.
2006-06-11 18:28:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never seen it
2006-06-11 18:26:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
good movie
2006-06-11 18:26:42 · answer #6 · answered by glock509 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋