The Birth of a Nation
“The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!”
DramaHistoryWar
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
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A monumental, yet deeply disturbing, silent epic. It feels like a grand, operatic sweep of history, tinged with a deeply unsettling and patriotic fervor that demands critical engagement.
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armyku klux klansouthern usaconspiracy theoryracismperiod dramasilent filmamerican civil war19th centuryabolitionistreconstruction erahistorical epicindependent film
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