The Birth of a Nation is a movie directed by D.W. Griffith in 1915 and based on the book The Clansman by Thomas Dixon Jr., first published in 1905. The movie features Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, and others.
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“The movie is better than the book”
But the book is worth reading.
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Storyline
Two 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.
Movie vs Book
Year
1915
Minutes
195
Movie Rate
6.30
Source: IMDb
Year
1905
Pages
374
Book Rate
5.34
S: Goodreads
Book
The Clansman
Author: Thomas Dixon Jr.
Country: USA
First published in: 1905
Length: 374 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: The Reconstruction Trilogy
User polls & recommendations
“The biggest challenge of adapting the book was trying to make the inner lives of the characters legible through their outward actions.”
SALLY ROONEY (Writer)
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