The Birth of a Nation 1915 Watch Free in HD

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

Genre:

Drama, Romance, History

Actors:

Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann, Walter Long, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, Joseph Henabery, ...»

Director:

D.W. Griffith

Country:

United States

Release:

1915

IMDb:

6.1

Quality:

Duration:

195 min

Chicago Reader

Griffith's later films are unquestionably superior. But here, in a very real sense, is where the movies began, both as an art and as a business.

February 06, 2008

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Film4

This is an impressive spectacle, rightfully lauded for its myriad innovations. But the sentiments it expresses are pretty damn ugly.

August 19, 2013

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Common Sense Media

D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation is as much a part of film history as the Civil War is a part of American history.

September 21, 2014

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Variety

Birth of a Nation is a great epoch in picture making; it's great for pictures and it's great for the name and fame of David Wark Griffith. When a man like Griffith in a new field can do what he has done, he may as well be hailed while he is living.

February 06, 2008

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Empire Magazine

The Birth of a Nation has become a staple of any film studies course, for its excellent performances, thrilling action sequences and epic landscapes. However it's subject matter is much more controversial now.

August 19, 2013

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Chicago Sun-Times

It is an unavoidable fact of American movie history, and must be dealt with.

April 20, 2003

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Total Film

A towering milestone in the history of cinema. Asentimentalised, reactionary slab of racism. Can a film be both? In the case of D.W. Griffith's silent-era classic The Birth Of A Nation, unfortunately it can.

August 19, 2013

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New York Times

The civil war battle pictures, taken in panorama, represent enormous effort and achieve a striking degree of success.

March 25, 2006

Time Out

The biggest challenge the film provided for its audiences is perhaps to decide when 'ground-breaking, dedicated, serious cinematic art' must be reviled as politically reprehensible.

February 09, 2006

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Radio Times

It's hard to applaud a film where the Ku Klux Klan rides triumphantly to the rescue, and this, alas, undoes all the sterling work put in earlier and the wonderful performances from Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B Walthall and especially Robert Harron.

August 19, 2013

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Guardian

The quasi-Victorian Griffith was in so many respects way ahead of his time even if his philosophy and mind-set could often be said to be behind it.

August 19, 2013

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New Yorker

Problematically, Birth of a Nation wasn't just a seminal commercial spectacle but also a decisively original work of art -- in effect, the founding work of cinematic realism, albeit a work that was developed to pass lies off as reality.

August 19, 2013

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