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Title The birth of a nation.

Publication Info. St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada : Madacy Entertainment Group, [2001]
©2001

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Video  PN1997 .B56 2001    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 DVD (videodisc) (175 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium monochrome
Description digital
optical
video file
Series Hollywood classics
Hollywood classics.
Note Videodisc release of the 1915 motion picture.
Based on the novel The clansman by Thomas Dixon.
Silent dialog with music and English subtitles.
Credits Director/producer, D.W. Griffith ; writers, D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods ; photography, William Bitzer ; original score, Joseph Breil ; score compiled and reorchestrated by R.J. Miller.
Performer Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden.
Summary A civil war spectacular that portrays life in the South during and after the Civil War. The story depicts the war itself, the conflict between the defeated Southerners and emancipated renegade blacks, the despoiling of the South during the carpetbagger period, and the revival of the Southern white man's honor through the efforts of the Ku Klux Klan.
Note For specific features see interactive menu.
System Details DVD format.
Genre/Form War films.
War films.
Silent films.
Silent films.
Subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Drama.
Genre/Form Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Drama.
Added Author Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948.
Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993.
Marsh, Mae, 1895-1968.
Walthall, Henry B. (Henry Brazeale), 1878-1936.
Cooper, Miriam, 1891-1976.
Alden, Mary, 1883-1946.
ISBN 0778604292
Music No. DVD9 9263 Madacy Entertainment