The Birth of a Nation (1915)

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.

Vintage magazines

Photoplay , December 1929

Books on The Birth of a Nation

		Melvyn Stokes D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation, A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time 2008

		Michael R. Hurwitz The Film that Transformed America, D. W. Griffith's Film, The Birth of a Nation 2006

		Robert Lang (ed.) The Birth of a Nation, D.W. Griffith, Director 1994

		Nickieann Fleener-Marzec D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, Controversy, Suppression, and the First Amendment as It Applies to Filmic Expression, 1915-1973 Madison, 1977

		Fred Silva (ed.) Focus on The Birth of a Nation Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1971

Books with substantial mentioning of The Birth of a Nation

		National Film Theatre Fifty famous films, 1915-1945 [London], [[between 1945 and 1960]

		Robert P. Kolker Politics goes to the movies, Hollywood, Europe, and beyond London & New York, 2018

		Melvyn Stokes American History through Hollywood Film, From the Revolution to the 1960s London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney, 2013

		John White and Sabine Haenni (eds.) Fifty Key American Films London and New York, 2009

		David Thomson Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films New York, 2008

		Brian J. Robb Silent cinema Harpenden, Herts, 2007

		Marilyn Fabe Closely watched films, An introduction to the art of narrative film technique Berkeley, 2004

		Dawn B. Sova Forbidden Films, Censorship Histories of 125 Motion Pictures New York NY, 2001

		Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.) International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

		Robert K. Klepper Silent Films, 1877-1996, A Critical Guide to 646 Movies Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 1999

		Jean-Pierre Frimbois Les 100 chefs-d'oeuvre du film historique Alleur (Belgique), 1989

		Ann Lloyd (ed.) Movies of the Silent Years London, 1985

		Anthony Slide and Edward Wagenknecht Fifty Great American Silent Films 1912-1920, A Pictorial Survey New York, 1980

Books with an entry on The Birth of a Nation

		S. Torriano Berry, Venise T. Berry Historical dictionary of African American cinema Lanham, Maryland - Toronto - Plymouth, UK, 2007

		Larry Langman and David Ebner Hollywood's Image of the South, A Century of Southern Films Westport, Connecticut - London, 2001

		Robert B. Connelly The Motion Picture Guide, Silent Film 1910-1936 Chicago, 1986

Articles on The Birth of a Nation

Earl F. Mulderink III, America's Civil War, Hollywood vs. History, in: Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller (eds.), The American Civil War on film and TV, Lanham, Maryland, 2017

Sue Matheson, Not a Lost Cause, The Civil War, Reconstruction, and Race Relations in The Birth of A Nation (1915) and Free State of Jones (2016), in: Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller (eds.), The American Civil War on film and TV, Lanham, Maryland, 2017

Beth Jane Toren, Featuring Atrocity & H8tful Heritage, Tarantino's Revision of Civil War Mythology, in: Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller (eds.), The American Civil War on film and TV, Lanham, Maryland, 2017

Michael Hammond, 'A Soul Stirring Appeal to Every Briton': The Reception of The Birth of a Nation in Britain (1915-1916), in: Film History, vol. 11, 1999 pp. 353-370

Arthur Lennig, Myth and fact, The reception of Te Birth of a Nation, in: Film History, vol. 16, 2004 pp. 117-141

Paul McEwan, Lawyers, Bibliographies, and the Klan: Griffith's resources in the censorship battle over The Birth of a Nation in Ohio, in: Film History, vol. 20, 2008 pp. 357-366

Kathleen Starck, "The Black Super-Stud. On the Loose. After our Women": Black Masculinity in The Birth of a Nation and Native Son, in: Jochen Achilles, Ina Bergmann (eds.), Representations of Evil in Fiction and Film, Trier, 2009

Articles with substantial mentioning of The Birth of a Nation

Kayla McKinney Wiggins and Michael Wiggins, When Silence was Golden, Silent Civil War Films before The Birth of a Nation, in: Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller (eds.), The American Civil War on film and TV, Lanham, Maryland, 2017

Robert Wohlforth, In and Out of "The Birth of a Nation", in: Films in Review, vol. 29, 1978 pp. 465-470

Charles Warren, Self-Reflection in American Silent Film, in: Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, and Art Simon (ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film, Malden, MA, Oxford, Chisester, 2012