TY  - BOOK
AU  - Griffith, D. W.
TI  - The birth of a nation
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Mumbai
PB  - Enlighten
KW  - Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)
KW  - Drama
KW  - Reconstruction
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War
KW  - 1861-1865
N1  - Silent film with music score; Includes 'The making of' (24 mins.).
Originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1915.
Based on the novel The Clansman, by Thomas Dixon
N2  - Recounts the events leading up to and immediately fter the Civil War. Ben Cameron, a brave yet disillusioned Confederate soldier, creates a covert group of impassioned Southerners called the Ku Klux Klan as an answer to the supposed problem of the rise and rule of blacks and carpetbaggers. Bent on revenge, Ben leads his KKK followers in a war to suppress the black threat to white society, ultimately restoring
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