The birth of a nation in retrospect

Document author(s):

Seymour Stern

Document source:

International Photographer

Publication date:

1996 Mar

Document language:

English

Document type:

article

Number of pages:

4

Source pagination:

50+52; 58

Document name subject:

D. W. Griffith, Thomas Dixon Jr., Henry B. Walthall, and Lillian Gish

Document contains:

production co

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• Judith of Bethulia — Griffith, D. W. — United States — 1913
• Cabiria — Pastrone, Giovanni — Italy — 1914
• The birth of a nation — Griffith, D. W. — United States — 1915
• The covered wagon — Cruze, James — United States — 1923
• Down to the sea in ships — Clifton, Elmer — No country known — 1923
• The thief of Bagdad — Walsh, Raoul — United States — 1924
• The big parade — Vidor, King — United States — 1925
• Bronenosets Potemkin (Battleship Potemkin) — Eisenstein, Sergei — Soviet Union — 1925

Film country(ies):

Italy, Soviet Union, and United States

Film language(s):

English, Italian, and Russian

Film production company:

Biograph, Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Company, Epoch Producing Company, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, Goskino, Italia Film, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Film genre(s):

Adaptation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Feature, Historical, Melodrama, Political, Propaganda, Religious, Romance, War, and Western

Film subject(s):

• Arabian Peninsula -- Drama
• Arabian nights -- Film and video adaptations
• Battleships -- Soviet Union -- Drama
• Bible -- Biography -- Drama
• Bible. O.T. Apocrypha -- Drama
• Farnham, Joseph -- Film and video adaptations
• Italy -- History -- 300-200 B.C. -- Drama
• Kidnapping victims -- Drama
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Drama
• Livius Novus, Titus -- Film and video adaptations
• Mutiny -- Soviet Union -- Drama
• Punic War, 1st, 264-241 B.C. -- Drama
• Racism -- United States -- Drama
• Reconstruction -- Drama
• Rescues -- Italy -- Drama
• Revolutions -- Soviet Union -- Drama
• Soldiers -- France -- Drama
• Southern States -- Race relations -- Drama
• Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution of 1905 -- Drama
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Drama
• Wagon trains -- West (U.S.) -- Drama
• Women -- Italy -- History -- 300-200 B.C. -- Drama
• Women -- Southern States -- History -- 1865-1900 -- Drama
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Drama
• World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Drama

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