The Birth of a Nation
Movie • 1915 • Drama
ReportTwo families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
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Bodily Harm
Does someone fall to their death?
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Akai
Yes, a character jumps off of a cliff. The fall and her last moments alive after it are shown on-screen
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Prejudice
Is there hate speech?
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Akai
Yes, a huge part of the movie revolves around the creation of KKK and it is shown as something positive. Also black people are depicted as evil. Basically it is a really racist movie
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Dudebro42069
Every single black character is played by a white actor in blackface
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