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A thrifter picked up a DVD at the store, then saw what the film glorified

A shopper at a Goodwill thrift store recently made an unsettling discovery in the DVD section—a copy of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 silent film widely regarded as one of the most ...
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D. W. Griffith's The birth of a nation : a history of "the most controversial motion picture of all time" / Melvyn Stokes

Premiere in Los Angeles -- Thomas Dixon, Jr. -- David Wark Griffith -- Making The birth of a nation -- Transforming the American movie audience -- Fighting a vicious film -- Griffith's view of history ...