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The Birth of a Nation
MEANRANK
57/100
Every rating
Sharply split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 40, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 91. Critics average 80, everyone else 52.
See the most contested films →The lives of two families, one Northern and one Southern, are followed through the events of the American Civil War and the subsequent Reconstruction era. The film portrays the assassination of President Lincoln and the formation of the Ku Klux Klan, which it depicts as a heroic force necessary to restore order to the South and protect white Southerners from the perceived threats of emancipation.
Details
- Director
- D.W. Griffith
- Writers
- D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods
- Based on
- The Clansman by Thomas Dixon Jr.
- Released
- 8 March 1915
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 195 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $100.0K
- Box office
- $100.0M
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