The first of many...

Rating: 7/10 (3 October 2005)

Despite what people think of this movie being racist, disgusting, perverted and all the other things that this movie might indeed be. It non the less will anchor itself in history as it almost single handedly change the way film are made and the way films are looked at. Before Birth of a Nation, there was no thing as a massive hit movie. Because of this massive success at the box office, movie studios in Hollywood for the first time realized that instead of spending a few thousand dollars on a bunch of films, they could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on one film and promise a successful smash hit at the box office. This was one of the greatest demises of independent film. While the Trust of the early 1900's tried to destroy independent film making, this film was definitely one of the reasons independent films and low budget films are not even close to sharing the same limelight as the big super hits in Hollywood today.