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Catalogue Number: 041873
Producer: PBS Video
Subject: Black History, Documentary, History, Social Issues, Sociology, World History
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2017
Running Time: 60
Closed Captions: Yes
Independent Lens: Birth of a Movement
This item is only available for Canadian orders.Catalogue Number: 041873
Producer: PBS Video
Subject: Black History, Documentary, History, Social Issues, Sociology, World History
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2017
Running Time: 60
Closed Captions: Yes
In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood.
Birth of a Movement features commentary from Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and DJ Spooky (who created a new score and remix of the Griffith film), and numerous clips from the technically groundbreaking but racially astounding epic.
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