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Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of the American Century is a 2002 documentary, narrated by Linda Hunt, that was aired in the United States as a two-part limited television series starting on January 6, 2002.
6 gen 2002 · A documentary about the intellectual pacifist progressive President Woodrow Wilson, showing his place in history as the president who oversaw America's transformation into a singular global power, but also his failed quest for world peace, due to his poor physical stamina and political dexterity.
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- Documentary, Drama
- Carl Byker, Mitch Wilson
- 2002-01-06
23 set 2021 · In 1915, President Woodrow Wilson watched The Birth of a Nation, a film by D. W. Griffith that falsified the reality of the post–Civil War Reconstruction period by presenting blacks as attempting to dominate southern whites and sexually force themselves on white women.
13 dic 2015 · In March, 1915, under President Woodrow Wilson, “The Birth of a Nation” became the first film to be screened at the White House.
- Allyson Hobbs
The Birth of a Nation is a landmark of film history, lauded for its technical virtuosity. It was the first non-serial American 12-reel film ever made.
14 mar 2016 · Perhaps most influential film of that century’s first half, The Birth of a Nation was steeped in the Dunning School’s interpretation of Reconstruction. Based on the novel The Clansman by Thomas Dixon (a university classmate of Woodrow Wilson’s), the three-hour silent film glorified the Ku Klux Klan as the saviors of the South ...
Birth of a Nation demonstrates how many early twentieth-century Americans wanted to view the Civil War and romanticize the South, and how assumptions about racial inferiority helped (at least in theory) unite disparate elements of the white American people.
