A piece of history

Rating: 7/10 (20 March 2011)

Watching this movie is like being placed in a time machine and being transported back to 1915. I was absolutely shocked that president Wilson thought this movie was historically accurate. The first half was fairly true to the civil war, but the second half is complete fiction.
The movie is about 2 families one northern the other southern. The kids are great friends and it shows how the war and reconstruction affected both of them.
The movie was the first feature length feature film made in Hollywood. Griffin used the most advance techniques available at the time, and really helps keep the interest of the movie going. The racist overtones of the movie is a look at what was acceptable in parts of America just prior to WWI. It is strange by the time this film was made the klans power was waining, but prejudice was still so commonplace, otherwise the film would not have grossed as much as it did.