Racist? You bet. A landmark in film history? Definitely.

Rating: Null/10 (28 December 2002)

I had to view this film for my Civil War history class at a local university. Being from a modern biased standpoint, this film was so racist that I wanted to puke. The ending of the film was worse (I am not going to reveal that to you. You need to see the film for yourself.), however, this film should be viewed from an educational context. This movie is a landmark in film history and I consider it revolutionary for its time.

Film students, film historians (or any historian for that matter), film buffs, and history students need to see this film not for entertainment purposes (what's so entertaining about racism anyway) but to examine the content of the film. Why did people think that way? How did the first Reconstruction of the United States fail? How did the North and South view each other before, during, and after the Civil War? The answer to these questions and many more can be found in D.W. Griffith's film, "A Birth of a Nation."