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: D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film
Birth of a Nation
(1915) left a lasting imprint on Americans’ conception of Reconstruction. From this movie, audiences learned that Reconstruction was an utter disaster, a period when opportunistic Northern carpetbaggers, treacherous Southern scalawags, and ignorant former slaves pillaged the prostrate South. Viewed by more than 200 million people between its rel...
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Important films of this era
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