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06/03/2008
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss DW Griffith's controversial silent film classic The Birth of a Nation, whose subject matter is the Ku Klux Klan.
An exploration of DW Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation
For the Landmarks series championing influential works, Matthew Sweet is joined by writers Kevin Jackson and Bonnie Greer, and film historians Richard Dyer and Kevin Brownlow to reassess DW Griffith's controversial silent classic from 1915, The Birth of a Nation, a film whose qualities have always been overshadowed by its subject matter - the Ku Klux Klan.
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