A Sad Piece of American History

Rating: Null/10 (12 June 2000)

I was warned before I watched this film that it would be difficult to watch.
Indeed!
I find myself, for the first time in my life, at a loss for words. This movie, was one of the darkest recollections of American History I can recall. With all the documentaries and literature out there on the Holocaust, one would seem almost immune to the attrocites shown in this movie. Unfortunately, that could not be further from the truth.

This movie shook me to the very core of my Being, and for the second time in my life, had me question the fibre of American History. It astounds me that people do, indeed, have this awful dark side - Man killing Man - and D.W. Griffith, sad to say, does an excellent job in showing us that, even in 1915, however far Man had come in his technology, in his mind and in his heart, we have come not so far at all. Unfortunately, Hitler didn't have to look very far to get his ideas moving in the right direction.
The lesson in this movie is not only to learn where this country has come from...but more important, to learn, that as human beings, we should never, ever let this happen again.