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The Life of a Nation Collection
Two epics portraying fictional events within the context of America's history.
2 movies 4h 28m total 8.0 avg
Timeline
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The Birth of a Nation3/8/19153h 13m 5.9Two 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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The Fall of a Nation6/6/19161h 15m 10.0A sequel to DW Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, by the same author, and now lost. It is considered the first film sequel ever made and recounts a fictional invasion of America by a united army from Europe.
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