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6) The Birth of a Nation: how a legendary director and a crusading editor reignited America's Civil War
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Remastered.
Language
None
Description
A fifteen-year-old street urchin who longs to escape her miserable existence. Emotionally scarred by the torment and neglect of her abusive father, the girl collapses outside the shop of the lonely and disillusioned 'yellow man'. As he tenderly nurtures her back to health, an unspoken romance flowers between them, awakening in each of them feelings of love.
9) Intolerance
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Standard format.
Language
None
Description
Four separate, interwoven stories, unified by the common theme of man's inhumanity to fellow man. The Babylonian story deals with the fall of Babylon in 538 B.C. The Judean story treats the life of Christ. The French story centers on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572. The modern story is set in an American mill town and the slum area of an American city.
10) Intolerance
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Four separate stories are interwoven: the fall of Babylon, the death of Christ, the massacre of the Huguenots and a contemporary drama, all crosscut and building with enormous energy to a thrilling chase and finale.
11) Biograph shorts
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The selection of motion pictures in this two-disc set traces D.W. Griffith's rapid, unparalleled development as a filmmaker during his five year stint at the Biograph Company - a development that contributed substantially to the emergence of film as a powerful form of cultural expression.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement features commentary from Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and DJ Spooky (who created...
13) Broken blossoms
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A young Chinaman in London's squalid Limehouse district hopes to spread the peaceful philosophy of his Eastern religion. He befriends a pitiful street waif who is mistreated by her brutal father. Nursing her back to health, tragedy results when an unspoken romance flowers between them.
14) Way down East
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full-frame.
Language
English
Description
A poor country girl is tricked into a fake marriage and has an illegitimate child who dies. After starting a new life, her past is exposed and she is evicted into a blizzard.
15) Intolerance
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Switches back and forth between four separate stories from Babylonian times to the twentieth century to show humanity's inhumanity and intolerance through the ages. The Babylonian story deals with the fall of Babylon in 538 B.C. The Judean story treats the life of Christ. The French story centers on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572. The modern story is set in an American mill town and the slum area of an American city.
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Deluxe edition.
Language
English
Description
Nearly 100 years after its initial release, remains one of the most controversial films ever made and a landmark achievement in film history that continues to fascinate and enrage audiences. It is the epic story of two families, one northern and one southern, during and after the Civil War. D.W. Griffith's masterful direction combines brilliant battle scenes and tender romance with a vicious portrayal of African-Americans.
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
[Special edition].
Language
English
Description
The story of two families, North and South, who are caught up in the Civil War and then the Reconstruction period. Includes an edited ten minute version of "The birth of a race" (1918) which was conceived as a protest against the racism of "Birth of a nation".
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A Civil War spectacular. Portrays life in the South during and after the Civil War as revealed in a story depicting the war itself, the conflict between the defeated Southerners and emancipated renegade Negroes, 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.
Series
K volume 269
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Two sisters are caught up in the French revolution of 1789.
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