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The Birth of a Nation: The Film That Shaped American Culture

EXPLANATION The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American epic historical drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by D. W. Griffith. Based on the 1905 novel The Clansman by Thomas Dixon Jr., it is the first feature-length film to be produced by the United States. The film tells the story of the Civil War and Reconstruction era in the United States, with a particular focus on the Ku Klux Klan.