Birth of a Nation Scene

Silas Lynch is an actor by the name of George Siegmann. He is white. He made over 122 movies and directed as well. He was the #1 villian actor of the 1920's.

Interesting

He is mixed race.

^ True, not just a derogatory comment.

it's funny they only use white people to pretend to be african americans with power whilst having the lower class african americans being actually played by african americans

Filmic innovations aside, this film is despicable.

@natethefighter perhaps you should argue that history is despicable, not this film.

Good point. People have always been cruel to one another. Sad but true

Perhaps, but there is something to be said for the fact that the film was almost single handedly responsible for the revival of the KKK in the early part of the century. Now, I'm not trying to say that the movie should be barred from the public or whatnot (a la the Warner Brothers "Censored 11"), as history obviously is incredibly important. But the film at the same time needs to be recognized for the message it sends.

Well, it is a great line. I nearly fell off my chair at the time I first saw the movie and that "Aryan birthright" intertitle came up.

It's doubly funny when you're German...

yeah its silly that was quite common back then