What is The Birth of a Nation?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox film | name = The Birth of a Nation | image = Birth of a Nation theatrical poster.jpg | alt = | caption = Movie poster | director = [[D. W. Griffith]] | producer = D. W. Griffith, Harry Aitken<ref>[http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/dwgriffith.htm D. W. Griffith: Hollywood Independent]</ref> | writer = D. W. Griffith, [[Thomas Dixon, Jr.|T. F. Dixon, Jr.]]<br>[[Frank E. Woods]] | starring = [[Lillian Gish]]<br>[[Mae Marsh]]<br>[[Henry B. Walthall]]<br>[[Miriam Cooper]]<br>[[Ralph Lewis (actor)|Ralph Lewis]]<br>[[George Siegmann]] | music = [[Joseph Carl Breil]] | cinematography = [[Billy Bitzer|G.W. Bitzer]] | editing = D. W. Griffith | studio = [[D. W. Griffith|David W. Griffith Corp.]] | distributor = Epoch Producing Co. | released = {{Film date|1915|02|08}} | runtime = 190 minutes (at 16 frame/s) | country = United States | language = Silent film<br>English intertitles | budget = | gross = }} [[File:Birth of a Nation (1915).webm|thumb|thumbtime=4|upright=1.5|''The Birth of a Nation'']] '''''The Birth of a Nation''''' is a [[1915]] [[silent movie|silent]] [[drama]] movie. It was [[Director (movie)|directed]] by [[D. W. Griffith]]. It was based on the book ''[[The Clansman]]'' by [[Thomas Dixon, Jr.]] It stars [[Lillian Gish]]. The movie is about two families during the [[American Civil War]] and the [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction era]]. The [[Northern United States|Northern]] Stoneman family is pro-[[Union (American Civil War)|Union]]. The [[Southern United States|Southern]] Cameron family is pro-[[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]]. The [[assassination]] of [[President of the United States|President]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] by [[John Wilkes Booth]] is dramatized. It is a [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] and antisemitic film. The movie was a great [[success]]. It was very [[controversy|controversial]] though.