The Cynical Historian

The Birth of a Nation | Based on a True Story (2016x31)

Air date: Oct 07, 2016

The Birth of Nation was the first major motion picture success, and because of its historical inaccuracy, the Ku Klux Klan was revived for another round of terror. This is the worst case of a Based on a True Story film. So today is a prime time to go into why it was so bad, and get some President Wilson bashing in. Through YouTube's cowardice, this video has been demonetized. ------------------------------------------------------------ more videos: previous: https://youtu.be/rxIk4_ZE0x4 related: https://youtu.be/xQGs3eYxGRw ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Blee, Kathleen M. Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. https://amzn.to/2NzeHbl http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/02/08/383279630/100-years-later-whats-the-legacy-of-birth-of-a-nation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation#Ideology_and_accuracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clansman:_A_Historical_Romance_of_the_Ku_Klux_Klan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan#Second_Klan:_1915.E2.80.931944 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_Era#Legacy_and_historiography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson#Civil_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haiti_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner%27s_slave_rebellion ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 contribute to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian LET'S CONNECT: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ----------------------------------------- Wiki: The Birth of a Nation (originally called The Clansman) is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed and co-produced by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from the