The Birth of a Nation
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- a US silent film (1915) by D W Griffith. It tells the story of the American Civil War and the period of Reconstruction after it. Although it was a great success and influenced later films, it made the Ku Klux Klan seem good, and there was violence in several US cities when it was shown.
《国家的诞生：DW Griffith的美国无声电影》（1915年）。它讲述了美国内战的故事以及此后的重建时期。尽管这是一个巨大的成功，并影响了后来的电影，但它使Ku Klux Klan看起来不错，而且放映时在美国的几个城市都发生了暴力事件。