Birth of a Movement

2017 • 54 minutes
5.0
2 reviews
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About this movie

In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith’s notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement features commentary from Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and DJ Spooky (who created a new score and remix of the Griffith film), and numerous clips from the technically groundbreaking but racially astounding epic.

Ratings and reviews

5.0
2 reviews
Dancan Shikambe
June 17, 2021
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