Silent Film Fridays - "Birth of a Nation" (1915)
Date and Time
Friday, April 27, 2018
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- Friday, April 27, 2018 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Location
Saints Tekakwitha and Serra Hall, 200, Humanities Center
5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110Cost
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The Humanities Center is excited to present Silent Film Fridays, where select Friday afternoons we will be showing a famous silent film throughout the Spring semester. Come enjoy the origins of film with your friends and watch where it all started.
This week's film is "Birth of a Nation" (1915), directed by D.W. Griffith. Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine in director D.W. Griffith's controversial Civil War epic. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron (Henry B. Walthall) is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman (Lillian Gish) petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father (Ralph Lewis) and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch (George Siegmann).
