Browsing: Birth Of A Nation

Birth Of A Nation is not the film you think it is.  Don’t confuse this with the 1915 KKK propaganda piece of the same name,  directed by D.W. Griffith (son of a confederate soldier).  Griffith based his film on “The Clansman,” a book by Thomas Dixon. Yes, writer/director/actor of 2016’s film Nate Parker made the […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] The irony of the use of the title The Birth of a Nation is not lost on viewers today: the 1915 film (so just over a century ago) with the same title had been a tale of the founding of the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force to help save the perceived […]