Question: Do both films The Sinister Monk and The Birth of a Race have the directors from the same country?

It was made as a response to the 1915 film" The Birth of a Nation", and was meant to discredit the negative stereotypes perpetuated by the film. Initially, it was intended to be a short answer film that could be appended to" The Birth of a Nation" in 1915 but a combination of weak financial backing and growing ambitions delayed its completion for more than two years. The Birth of a Race is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by John W. Noble. When finally released in December 1918, following the end of World War I," The Birth of a Race" was a two- hour feature- length film, portraying the achievements of black people through history. It premiered in Chicago in December, 1918, to great ballyhoo but was a commercial and critical failure. This film is preserved at the Library of Congress. <SEP> John Winthrop Noble( born Winfield Fernley Kutz; June 24, 1880 – September 10, 1946) was an American film director and screenwriter during the silent era. <SEP> It is based on the play" The Terror" by Edgar Wallace and was part of a very successful series of German films inspired by his works. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin with location shooting in London, Hamburg and Hamelin in Lower Saxony. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Walter Kutz and Wilhelm Vorwerg. The Sinister Monk is a 1965 West German thriller film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Karin Dor, Harald Leipnitz and Siegfried Lowitz. <SEP> He is known for the films he made based on Edgar Wallace and Karl May books( see Karl May movies and Edgar Wallace movies) and also made mountain films, Heimatfilms, German war films and entries in such popular German film series as" Dr. MabuseJerry Cotton" and" Kommissar X". Reinl began his career as an extra in the mountain films of Arnold Fanck. He worked as screenwriter on the film" Tiefland" directed by and starring Leni Riefenstahl. Reinl's first movie as director was the mountain film" Mountain Crystal"( 1949). He was Oscar nominated for his documentary feature" Chariots of the Gods"( 1970). Harald Reinl( 8 July 1908 in Bad Ischl, Austria – 9 October 1986 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain) was an Austrian film director. By the 1970s, he had semi-retired to the Canary Islands. In 1986, in his Tenerife retirement home, he was stabbed to death by Daniela Maria Delis, his alcoholic wife and a former actress from Czechoslovakia. <SEP> Peter Wade is a British anthropologist who specializes in issues of race and ethnicity in Latin America. Peter Wade is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He has written numerous books and articles about the social and historical meanings of race, ethnicity and sexuality in the context of Latin America. His" Race and Ethnicity in Latin America" has been described as an" essential text for students studying the region", and it has been published in a second edition. <SEP> Mary Childs Nerney was the Executive Secretary of the NAACP from 1912 to 1916. She was white, and often lost patience with the African- American people she was seeking to help. She offered W.E.B. DuBois the chance to lead the campaign to ban" The Birth of a Nation"( 1915), but he refused. Because of the lack of success in NAACP's actions to ban" The Birth of a Nation", on April 17, 1915, Nerney wrote to NAACP Executive Committee member George Packard:" I am utterly disgusted with the situation in regard to" The Birth of a Nation" ... kindly remember that we have put six weeks of constant effort of this thing and have gotten nowhere."