We know now that this isn't so inventive and "great" as it was supposed to be. The Italians had put out two films before Birth of a Nation in 1913 and 1914 and both were as grand and epic - if not more - than Birth.
The only reason Birth got so big is cause 1) the racism, and more importantly 2) Griffith tiredlessly and shamelessly promoted the film as "new level of film making" when in fact - AND WE KNOW NOW - it wasn't cause there were other film makers that beat Griffith to it.
I'm taking a U.S. History in Film class and we watched this movie. Actually we watched three quarters of it. As great of a movie as it is, I couldn't imagine sitting through all three hours of it.
ESTA PELICULA tiene valor en la HISTORIA del cine ...porque Griffith es maestro en la sistematización del lenguaje cinematográfico. De ahí en más, NADIE puede negar el carácter RACISTA del contenido y la forma. Un caso más de un genio EN SUS CIRCUNSTANCIAS HISTÓRICO ESPACIALES...
Went on to read all of these racism comments. It was pretty clear to me what the overall problem is and it does not have a thing to do with race. It is about how we have ALL turned our backs on GOD and we dont even love the people in our own race anymore or GOD. So how could we possibly love someone from another race? This is not a color issue. It is about the fact that most people are walking around filled with hate in general.
Thanks for posting this movie. Whether you like it or not it will always create great conversations when brought up. Would like to know if anyone has filed any copyrights infringement action against you for posting these? Not trying to be nosy but several other channels are having a lot of problems with it right now. Naively thought public domain meant exactly that.
@nextproject90 i uploaded plan 9 from outer space, and someone who made a radio play adaptation of the movie claimed they owned the original audio track.
the videos i've uploaded of these are of pretty mediocre quality because they come from genuinely public domain sources, as opposed to the higher quality transfers on the dvds/blu-rays i also own.
THIS WAS COMMISSIONED. THEY WERE PAID, THEN THEY WROTE THIS SO CALLED ART. THIS IS PROPAGANDA FOR THE TRIED AND TRUE ORDER OUT OF CHAOS, EMPLOYED WITH THE MOST BASIC, BLATANT, DIVIDE AND CONQUER STRATEGY. THEY HAVE BEEN WICKED RATS SINCE ANTIQUITY AND THEY ARE DESTROYING THE WORLD NOW. ONLY TO REBUILD IT IN THEIR SICK IMAGE. HAPPY TRAILS.
This film is racist. Most of the claims made today about certain older films and cartoons being racist are completely bs, but this one is really racist.
I like how douchebags like to say their favorite ignorant racist bullshit can't be justified anymore because of liberals! Look at the other comments, all the stupid bastards here can't even make a full sentence. I'm guessing there all from the south? It is the DUMMEST part of America.
i can't believe men old enough to be fathers will wake up one morning and decide to dress up as wizard and that chasing people, believing themselves to be right.
I wanted to be funny and say there were no blacks in this film cause it was all white folk with make up but I didn't. As a film student, as stated above this film is important because of its technical achievements in film making. Because of its structure and story line. Remember, this film is nearly 100 years old and 3 hours long. Un heard of during this time. It also shows the way the world was at this time. Its an amazing piece of film making.
Just watch at "Gone with the wind""racins,or "roots"in colors the miniseries,same facts were related.In "North and south "too.The black people were illtreated for a very long time,young ladies raped as domestic workers by their boss and so on...BUt today mentalities have changed!Black people are more and more considered in the world even if not anywhere but there has been a great evolution.
this movie , undeniable big step in technical and artistic innovation( and an indicator of attitudes, including racist ones, of majority of amercia) , is a victims of liberal politically correct censorship; by denial of its technical and artistic merits, by its removal from from the canon of great movies , by labeling it only by its racism etc etc
liberal political correctness tries to sweep the vicious racist foundations of usa,and west in general, from view.
@apehodet I've watched this movie on Hulu with an entirely different score. I assume that was the original and I have to say that it changes the feel of the movie quite a bit.
@thegoldencow as i've detailed at some other point in this comment section, i'm not sure what this score is, but i'm pretty sure it's not originally from 1915. there were several "original" scores.
1:41:16 to 1:42:00...1:54:00...1:59:07... 2:55:00...2:59:22 hi im working on a presentation in my film class...im putting a time line on your videos to make it easier to hit on my points...just FYI (please dont remove) Thanks!
1:29:19 hi im working on a presentation in my film class...im putting a time line on your videos to make it easier to hit on my points...just FYI (please dont remove) Thanks!
@apehodet The best film ever made would probably be Citizen Kane. But this one comes close.
@SmurfTheCool This film is damn well praised for the filmmaking. Plus it shows how nasty the racism was, it's an amazing snapshot of the attitudes of the time.
@SmurfTheCool because this film is on a technical level and a storytelling level that way decades ahead of its time. it was the first feature film that could be referred to as a piece of art, and it is directly or indirectly influential to all working filmmakers. it was also the first blockbuster - sixty years before jaws. it is also seen as a notoriously racist film and an historical account of a world view that far too many people shared.
@SmurfTheCool Like the other person said. The story telling is one of the best, the cinematography is wonderful. Also a film that is still talked about almost 100 years after it was released shows what an impact this film has even today. Because of this film the NAACP was formed. There is a lot to say about the film but this is one of the best films ever made.
@SmurfTheCool white racists are the only ones who praise it. i'm black and i praise it because i can show my friend's who doubt me when i tell them how vile and hateful whites actually are,there's no extent they won't go to to demonize any group that's not white. It's almost comical actually, that this is the childlike way they view other humans. Very surreal but nonetheless, yes there are some people that may call themselves intelligent that think of the black diaspora in this way.
As an African American, I will go on record by saying that this film is greatly important not only in recalling actual feelings and beliefs of some Americans in history but to remind and teach this and future generations the realities of the past in hopes that they not be repeated, some may agree with my comments and some may not, but I believe that all people should have access to proper information regarding history from various sources so that THE INDIVIDUAL may choose his/her path in life
@apehodet Many thanks for uploading this, I've wanted to see it for years. Its reputation preceeds it, but I don't want to form an opinion on it without watching it first. The BBC are doing a season on early American cinema soon and the first episode (understandably) covers this in great detail.
Great film, and it's message holds up to the test of time nearly 100 years later. It's just a damn tragedy the Jews were soon to conquer the film industry and warp it into the anti-white monstrosity it has become today.
154:47 House Negro Representative (RAPresentative more like) eating chicken (probably fried) leg whilst standing. Probably going to happen in real life very soon.
@WN4723 Cry more. No one is going around killing Whites over a movie. White people still are getting their shine in the movies....Go watch The Help and tell me if anything has changed.
Yea I noticed the other one was marked official. I guess so we think that it is impossible to see the "correct" or "real" movie without sitting through commercials. I'll be adding this upload rather to my playlist rather than the other as originally planned.
God, this movie was offensive! God mother fucking damn, I don't think I ever remember actually being angry while watching a movie. Do you all realize that this rhetoric they're using against the blacks is the exact same they're using against gays now? The whole "radical" minority trying to usurp the majority? Griffith may have set the precedent for filmmaking, but I have absolutely no respect for him as a person. God damn!
Haven't seen all of it yet but it seems like yuo've got the right scoring. It is impossible to know how every show was as the film was showed differently almost each night and with the score in different order. The musicians, it's said, had to learn a new arrangement and had to put the sheet music in a new way every show. Considering the fact that they played in a circus tent under field like circumstances it must have been a rough time for the symphony orchestra of about 100 pieces.
@adamwedgwood Especially with Jesus smiling at the white people at the end. Despite that fact, this film set back racial relations for decades most scholars believe.
You should upload Broken Blossoms too, it's a great movie about tolerance towards immigrants by D.W. Griffith. It has Richard Barthlemess as a "yellow man". :D
@apehodet Many thnaks for uploading this, I've wanted to see it for years. Its reputation preceeds it, but I don't want to form an opinion on it without watching it first. The BBC are doing a season on early American cinema soon and the first episode (understandably) covers this in great detail.
We know now that this isn't so inventive and "great" as it was supposed to be. The Italians had put out two films before Birth of a Nation in 1913 and 1914 and both were as grand and epic - if not more - than Birth.
The only reason Birth got so big is cause 1) the racism, and more importantly 2) Griffith tiredlessly and shamelessly promoted the film as "new level of film making" when in fact - AND WE KNOW NOW - it wasn't cause there were other film makers that beat Griffith to it.
lukebccb 1 day ago
I gave this upload thumbs down for the simple reason that it does not feature the original score composed and arranged by Joseph Carl Breil.
RosPratch 1 week ago
I'm taking a U.S. History in Film class and we watched this movie. Actually we watched three quarters of it. As great of a movie as it is, I couldn't imagine sitting through all three hours of it.
terrfomp92 1 week ago
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sucks to see racism might never die, but i think the only one to blame is the devil, after all he is the creator evil.
P3Ch4Ng0 2 weeks ago
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InvisibleDiary 3 weeks ago
That awkward moment when you feel like hugging Lincoln.. but don´t do it.
GreyLittleKitten 3 weeks ago
ESTA PELICULA tiene valor en la HISTORIA del cine ...porque Griffith es maestro en la sistematización del lenguaje cinematográfico. De ahí en más, NADIE puede negar el carácter RACISTA del contenido y la forma. Un caso más de un genio EN SUS CIRCUNSTANCIAS HISTÓRICO ESPACIALES...
mirnaguerrero1968 3 weeks ago
Went on to read all of these racism comments. It was pretty clear to me what the overall problem is and it does not have a thing to do with race. It is about how we have ALL turned our backs on GOD and we dont even love the people in our own race anymore or GOD. So how could we possibly love someone from another race? This is not a color issue. It is about the fact that most people are walking around filled with hate in general.
nextproject90 3 weeks ago
Thanks for posting this movie. Whether you like it or not it will always create great conversations when brought up. Would like to know if anyone has filed any copyrights infringement action against you for posting these? Not trying to be nosy but several other channels are having a lot of problems with it right now. Naively thought public domain meant exactly that.
nextproject90 3 weeks ago
@nextproject90 i uploaded plan 9 from outer space, and someone who made a radio play adaptation of the movie claimed they owned the original audio track.
the videos i've uploaded of these are of pretty mediocre quality because they come from genuinely public domain sources, as opposed to the higher quality transfers on the dvds/blu-rays i also own.
apehodet 3 weeks ago
this is an ignorant piece of crap no matter what anyone says. the only reason it is revered is it says what every white person wouldnt dare to say.
hezziejanel 3 weeks ago
THIS WAS COMMISSIONED. THEY WERE PAID, THEN THEY WROTE THIS SO CALLED ART. THIS IS PROPAGANDA FOR THE TRIED AND TRUE ORDER OUT OF CHAOS, EMPLOYED WITH THE MOST BASIC, BLATANT, DIVIDE AND CONQUER STRATEGY. THEY HAVE BEEN WICKED RATS SINCE ANTIQUITY AND THEY ARE DESTROYING THE WORLD NOW. ONLY TO REBUILD IT IN THEIR SICK IMAGE. HAPPY TRAILS.
sssssjjjj1 4 weeks ago
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daviddevall 1 month ago
This film is racist. Most of the claims made today about certain older films and cartoons being racist are completely bs, but this one is really racist.
pollitttyler 1 month ago
I like how douchebags like to say their favorite ignorant racist bullshit can't be justified anymore because of liberals! Look at the other comments, all the stupid bastards here can't even make a full sentence. I'm guessing there all from the south? It is the DUMMEST part of America.
MrDruism 1 month ago
i can't believe men old enough to be fathers will wake up one morning and decide to dress up as wizard and that chasing people, believing themselves to be right.
arezoi 1 month ago
its factual just look what they did to Detroit....planet of the apes
VANITYBONET 1 month ago
is that a polka dot pants? the one that the 1st part a black man wearing... wow it cute
ultravioletgaia 1 month ago
TL;DW
kourosh89 1 month ago
I wanted to be funny and say there were no blacks in this film cause it was all white folk with make up but I didn't. As a film student, as stated above this film is important because of its technical achievements in film making. Because of its structure and story line. Remember, this film is nearly 100 years old and 3 hours long. Un heard of during this time. It also shows the way the world was at this time. Its an amazing piece of film making.
Bonzophuebes10 1 month ago
Just watch at "Gone with the wind""racins,or "roots"in colors the miniseries,same facts were related.In "North and south "too.The black people were illtreated for a very long time,young ladies raped as domestic workers by their boss and so on...BUt today mentalities have changed!Black people are more and more considered in the world even if not anywhere but there has been a great evolution.
fisteberg 1 month ago
political correctness = a form of censorship used (mainly by liberals in west ) to 'white wash' realities of past and present
hammertapping 1 month ago
this movie , undeniable big step in technical and artistic innovation( and an indicator of attitudes, including racist ones, of majority of amercia) , is a victims of liberal politically correct censorship; by denial of its technical and artistic merits, by its removal from from the canon of great movies , by labeling it only by its racism etc etc
liberal political correctness tries to sweep the vicious racist foundations of usa,and west in general, from view.
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thanks for posting it here
hammertapping 1 month ago
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hammertapping 1 month ago
oh my god im watching a movie old 97 years..jesus so wierd, but so cool anyway
HowAreYou61 1 month ago
Triumph Of The Will is considered a classic movie too, but it doesn't seem to get as much controversy as this.
ErichoTTA 2 months ago
ok, no racist...its all just BLACK and WHITE....
ultravioletgaia 3 months ago 3
good film! er.. good...film?
ultravioletgaia 3 months ago
You ain't one of my kkk relatives are you?
Licmycat 3 months ago
Oh shit Im in the racsit part of YOUTUBE again better get my black ass up out of here. Before we start fighting.
TheCup963 4 months ago
I don't know if I can last 3 hours....
TheWizenhymer 4 months ago
@TheWizenhymer
i can last for 3 hours ;)
sataricon111 4 months ago
the ballot stuffing scene reminded me of the ACORN voting scandal
CrazyBB36 4 months ago
@CrazyBB36 You mean those voter fraud accusations that turned out to be completely exaggerated and overblown?
CoolerKing37 4 months ago
i didnt know you could be so racist when ur not actually saying anything
moskov12nicholas 5 months ago
@apehodet I've watched this movie on Hulu with an entirely different score. I assume that was the original and I have to say that it changes the feel of the movie quite a bit.
thegoldencow 5 months ago
@thegoldencow as i've detailed at some other point in this comment section, i'm not sure what this score is, but i'm pretty sure it's not originally from 1915. there were several "original" scores.
apehodet 5 months ago
Pretty much owning the title Longest Mediocre Melodrama ever made.
Yarmazyn 5 months ago
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Yarmazyn 5 months ago
A BLUEPRINT FOR FUTURE HOLLYWOOD!
R1D2S3 5 months ago
STILL STANDS TRUE TODAY,
Fee76Lawlus 5 months ago
so these black guys wanted to marry to white women. and this is sexual assault right? interesting perspective...
erol12345 5 months ago
1:41:16 to 1:42:00...1:54:00...1:59:07... 2:55:00...2:59:22 hi im working on a presentation in my film class...im putting a time line on your videos to make it easier to hit on my points...just FYI (please dont remove) Thanks!
dildyde 5 months ago
1:29:19 hi im working on a presentation in my film class...im putting a time line on your videos to make it easier to hit on my points...just FYI (please dont remove) Thanks!
dildyde 5 months ago
@apehodet The best film ever made would probably be Citizen Kane. But this one comes close.
@SmurfTheCool This film is damn well praised for the filmmaking. Plus it shows how nasty the racism was, it's an amazing snapshot of the attitudes of the time.
jaqqqqqqattack 6 months ago
A new Civil War is coming and it is being orchestrated by the CBC at this moment.
ClyneDDW 6 months ago
Someone please tell me why this movie is praised .
SmurfTheCool 6 months ago
@SmurfTheCool because this film is on a technical level and a storytelling level that way decades ahead of its time. it was the first feature film that could be referred to as a piece of art, and it is directly or indirectly influential to all working filmmakers. it was also the first blockbuster - sixty years before jaws. it is also seen as a notoriously racist film and an historical account of a world view that far too many people shared.
apehodet 6 months ago 18
@apehodet Ahh! So this movie isn't praised for its racism? Its praised for its art of storytelling
SmurfTheCool 6 months ago
@apehodet
I wouldn't say decades, maby a decade. After all great movies cames just 5-20 years after.
gombie 5 months ago
@SmurfTheCool Like the other person said. The story telling is one of the best, the cinematography is wonderful. Also a film that is still talked about almost 100 years after it was released shows what an impact this film has even today. Because of this film the NAACP was formed. There is a lot to say about the film but this is one of the best films ever made.
keaton1895 3 months ago
@keaton1895 NAACP formed in 1909.
ellbo2 2 months ago
@ellbo2 I know that but the group did not get national attention until then
keaton1895 2 months ago
@SmurfTheCool white racists are the only ones who praise it. i'm black and i praise it because i can show my friend's who doubt me when i tell them how vile and hateful whites actually are,there's no extent they won't go to to demonize any group that's not white. It's almost comical actually, that this is the childlike way they view other humans. Very surreal but nonetheless, yes there are some people that may call themselves intelligent that think of the black diaspora in this way.
virtuvianTrace 1 week ago
dont worry about it, DW griffith is fucking rotting in hell right now
ilovefrankandbeans 7 months ago
As an African American, I will go on record by saying that this film is greatly important not only in recalling actual feelings and beliefs of some Americans in history but to remind and teach this and future generations the realities of the past in hopes that they not be repeated, some may agree with my comments and some may not, but I believe that all people should have access to proper information regarding history from various sources so that THE INDIVIDUAL may choose his/her path in life
SoulOfTheGeneration 8 months ago 60
@SoulOfTheGeneration I totally Agree.... We must never forget....
latinlovelust 2 months ago
@SoulOfTheGeneration thank god i have hope for the tolarance of humanity fucking racist need to be told of their ignorance.
ThatGeordieGAMER 2 months ago
@SoulOfTheGeneration They can also read the book that this movie is based off of.
Bonzophuebes10 1 month ago
@SoulOfTheGeneration completely agree, we cant change the past but use it to mold the future.
K10ESW 1 month ago
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@SoulOfTheGeneration completely agree, we cant change the past but use it to mold the future.
K10ESW 1 month ago
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@SoulOfTheGeneration completely agree, we cant change the past but use it to mold the future.
K10ESW 1 month ago
3:15 Mickey Rourke?
WheresPoochie 8 months ago 2
@WheresPoochie Probably.
BehnamLot 7 months ago
@apehodet Many thanks for uploading this, I've wanted to see it for years. Its reputation preceeds it, but I don't want to form an opinion on it without watching it first. The BBC are doing a season on early American cinema soon and the first episode (understandably) covers this in great detail.
richievegas01 9 months ago
@apehodet The World's first Pre-recorded score belonged to The Fairy-Log Radio Play (1902) an adaptation of The Oz books. Or was that live?
jqfan 9 months ago
Una pelicula que solo puede ser entendida dentro del contexto historico del cine
Jorgecristoballester 10 months ago
Great film, and it's message holds up to the test of time nearly 100 years later. It's just a damn tragedy the Jews were soon to conquer the film industry and warp it into the anti-white monstrosity it has become today.
WN4723 11 months ago
@WN4723 Seriously that does not even begin to compare with the racial backlash this movie caused >_>
Mariobroszx 11 months ago 2
@WN4723 sad but true.
154:47 House Negro Representative (RAPresentative more like) eating chicken (probably fried) leg whilst standing. Probably going to happen in real life very soon.
daviddevall 1 month ago
@WN4723 Cry more. No one is going around killing Whites over a movie. White people still are getting their shine in the movies....Go watch The Help and tell me if anything has changed.
marqtheone 1 week ago
Yea I noticed the other one was marked official. I guess so we think that it is impossible to see the "correct" or "real" movie without sitting through commercials. I'll be adding this upload rather to my playlist rather than the other as originally planned.
schadenfreudent 1 year ago
It's just Romeo and Juliet in the Reconstruction Era :D
jtfunkymojo 1 year ago
watching this is one of the greatest films I have ever seen
csa220 1 year ago
3 hours of pure racism? FAVORATED :d
CHAOSin8bits 1 year ago 21
3:42 - Is that a finger in the bottom right?
matt484991 1 year ago
@matt484991 I believe it's intentional, to show he's reading the letter. It is probably his right thumb though.
daviddevall 1 month ago
@vanillaflame this score isn't the original, but instead it's all five movements from Grieg - Holberg Suite, Op. 40.
there's a 5 movements right here on youtube!
Great piece when you just lay back, shut your eyes, and listen...
theflix815 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this! Just finished it.
God, this movie was offensive! God mother fucking damn, I don't think I ever remember actually being angry while watching a movie. Do you all realize that this rhetoric they're using against the blacks is the exact same they're using against gays now? The whole "radical" minority trying to usurp the majority? Griffith may have set the precedent for filmmaking, but I have absolutely no respect for him as a person. God damn!
Islander255 1 year ago
Haven't seen all of it yet but it seems like yuo've got the right scoring. It is impossible to know how every show was as the film was showed differently almost each night and with the score in different order. The musicians, it's said, had to learn a new arrangement and had to put the sheet music in a new way every show. Considering the fact that they played in a circus tent under field like circumstances it must have been a rough time for the symphony orchestra of about 100 pieces.
Madiba09 1 year ago 2
this film is so racist!
adamwedgwood 1 year ago
@adamwedgwood Especially with Jesus smiling at the white people at the end. Despite that fact, this film set back racial relations for decades most scholars believe.
choidj 1 year ago
@choidj makes makes me ashamed to be white
adamwedgwood 1 year ago
@adamwedgwood Nah, this movie was met with many white critics. I personally like white people... except the crazy Southerners.
choidj 1 year ago 3
You should upload Broken Blossoms too, it's a great movie about tolerance towards immigrants by D.W. Griffith. It has Richard Barthlemess as a "yellow man". :D
cholocharile 1 year ago
i think this is the best quality out there :) required to watch this for my film class..hope it's good
anum687 1 year ago 3
#Lang jo
stigomaster 1 year ago
@stigomaster good observation.
apehodet 1 year ago
Hvordan overlevde du da du uploadet denne...
mangafan1341 1 year ago
@mangafan1341 Jeg spiste og drakk og sov og sånt.
apehodet 1 year ago
@apehodet Many thnaks for uploading this, I've wanted to see it for years. Its reputation preceeds it, but I don't want to form an opinion on it without watching it first. The BBC are doing a season on early American cinema soon and the first episode (understandably) covers this in great detail.
richievegas01 9 months ago