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Film Response To The Film 'Birth Of A Nation'

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Birth of a Nation- Film Response

This film was released in 1915 and was considered an epic silent film that centered around the civil war. This film was adapted from the book and play, The Clansman. This film focuses on two families during the civil war and reconstruction era.
This movie had a few strong aspects, one of which being that it was fairly historically accurate from what I know about history and from what I’ve read. The fact that the movie depicted history fairly accurately really added to the believability factor of the movie. Since the movie is so old and outdated, it needed all it could get when it comings to realness. In contrast something that honestly was appalling was the use of blackface. I know that was acceptable at the time but, that’s not something that would be taken …show more content…

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