The Birth of a Nation (1915, D.W. Griffith) - U.S. Civil war.

《一个国家的诞生》(1915，导演d.w.格里菲思)——美国内战。

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W. Griffith's 1915 epic "Birth of a Nation, " but the film ultimately affirms Lincoln's recognition that compromise (including possible moral compromise) is an indispensable element of statecraft.

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W. Griffith's 1915 "The Birth of a Nation, " regarded as the first great American film epic, whose glorification of the Ku Klux Klan makes contemporary audiences uneasy at best, infuriated at worst.

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