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				Birth Of A Nation, The (1915) | 
			 
				
			
			
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				Film rated 3.1 / 5 
				(Chick rating: 3 / 5) 
				(Guy rating: 3.2 / 5)
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		| The Empire Strikes Blacks. | 
	 
	
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		| Black-and-white supremacists. | 
	 
	
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		| Griffith's original Hollywood blackbuster. | 
	 
	
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		| Kauses Kuite the Kontroversy. | 
	 
	
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		| Baddies wear black (skin). | 
	 
	
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		| KKK gets silent treatment. | 
	 
	
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		| Austin empowers Lynch's mob. | 
	 
	
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		| Silent Klansmen speaKKK volumes. | 
	 
	
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		| The Camerons? They're OKKK. | 
	 
	
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		| Really birth of blaxploitation. | 
	 
	
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		| Clannish Civil War spectacle. | 
	 
	
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		| Technically impressive racist epic. | 
	 
	
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		| Nation bears klandestine society. | 
	 
	
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		| Klansmen invent hood ornament. | 
	 
	
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		| Camerons wear white hoods. | 
	 
	
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		| KKK: fighting good cause??! | 
	 
	
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		| KKK's origins examined socioillogically. | 
	 
	
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		| President praised KKK movie. | 
	 
	
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		| Racists treated as heroes. | 
	 
	
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		| Epochal epic; nonetheless, racist. | 
	 
	
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		| Early KKK propaganda epic. | 
	 
	
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		| White sheets, black hearts. | 
	 
	
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		| Birth of cinematic racism. | 
	 
	
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		| Classic silent chillingly racist. | 
	 
	
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		| Promotional video for KKK. | 
	 
	
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		| EpiKKK depiKKKtion of KKK. | 
	 
	
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		| 'Lost Cause' myth endures... | 
	 
	
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		| White supremacy in monochrome. | 
	 
	
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		| Cliff-diving comforts molested woman. | 
	 
	
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		| Kontroversial Klan's klandestine konception. | 
	 
	
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		| Pointy-hooded bigots lauded? | 
	 
	
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		| Masterful yet KKKooky epic. | 
	 
	
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		| Pre-talkie racists wear hoods. | 
	 
	
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		| Griffith's Clue: Klux Klan. | 
	 
	
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		| Mulattoes usurp Reconstruction mandate. | 
	 
	
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		| Griffith's panegyric for Dixie. | 
	 
	
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		| North, South Caped divide. | 
	 
	
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		| Hysterically overblown minstrel show? | 
	 
	
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		| Stoneman brothers join war. | 
	 
	
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		| Racist old school classic. | 
	 
	
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		| Brilliant cinema, scary racism. | 
	 
	
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		| Stoneman brothers battle Camerons. | 
	 
	
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		| Epik, Classik, Problematik. | 
	 
	
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		| Accused rapists, redneck racists. | 
	 
	
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		| Racist Griffith changes cinema. | 
	 
	
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