It is king of tricky for me to watching a history movie such as “The Birth of Nation” because English is my second language, and I have to watched several times. However, I think it is a attractive movie about the history. History films are not easy for the directors, and they will makes some inaccuracy details beside the accuracy history content. In my opinion, D.W. Griffith had made so much inaccuracy historical information base on what have I read in the textbook.
At first, I want to talk about the content of “The Birth of Nation”. This movie based on Thomas Dixon’s novel "The Clansman". It tells the history of American in the 1860s, and two families from the North and the South. The movie makes the history information is more interesting such as the assassination of the President Lincoln, the conflict between North and South Americans and Silas Lynch, Africans immigrant, the mulatto Lieutenant-Governor, the Civil War. “The Birth of Nation” has its own historical important.
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I found out that there are so many inaccuracy details, and some of them are really ridiculous. The film regards crimes as justified as the mock trial and lynching of a black man who stalks and threat a young white woman which led to her death to protect her virginity, Ku Klux Klan was created to defense for white women and the reversing of election fraud attributed to black militia seen blocking leading white citizens from approaching the polls. I think if the black people cheated in the vote, it would be the big event in the history and it should be mention in the textbook, but I cannot find this detail in the textbook chapter fourteen and