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Jan 6, 2002 · A documentary about the intellectual pacifist progressive President Woodrow Wilson, showing his place in history as the president who oversaw America's transformation into a singular global power, but also his failed quest for world peace, due to his poor physical stamina and political dexterity.
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- Documentary, Drama
- Carl Byker, Mitch Wilson
- 2002-01-06
Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of the American Century is a 2002 documentary, narrated by Linda Hunt, that was aired in the United States as a two-part limited television series starting on January 6, 2002.
A documentary about the intellectual pacifist progressive President Woodrow Wilson, showing his place in history as the president who oversaw America's transformation into...
In 1915, President Woodrow Wilson watched The Birth of a Nation, a film by D. W. Griffith that falsified the reality of the post–Civil War Reconstruction period by presenting blacks as attempting to dominate southern whites and sexually force themselves on white women.
- Audiences Blown Away by Innovative Film
- Trotter and NAACP Respond to Film’S Racism
- Trotter’s Legacy
The president had agreed to host a movie night as a favor to the writer Thomas Dixon, an old college buddy, a fellow Southerner – and an unapologetic racist. Dixon’s bestselling novel The Clansman was the basis for filmmaker DW Griffith’s three-hour dramatization of the Civil War and Reconstruction, which depicted Ku Klux Klan members as heroes and...
The movie triggered mass protests across the nation, a rolling thunder that rumbled loudest in Boston. Leading the charge was a now largely forgotten civil rights leader and newspaper editor named William Monroe Trotter, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard whose father had fought for the Union as an officer in an all-black regiment from Boston. Du...
The protest story of 1915 became equal to the film’s prominence, so that one cannot consider the debut of Griffith’s film at the White House without taking on the other. Trotter’s militant refusal to accept a film – regardless of its artistic value to the medium – indicated his awareness of the damage it could cause. The film was ultimately part of...
- Dick Lehr
Jan 23, 2005 · All about Movie: directors and actors, reviews and ratings, trailers, stills, backstage. A documentary about the intellectual pacifist progressive Pre...
At the close of the film, after the triumph of the Ku Klux Klan, and the final intertitle rolled across screen, all eyes at the White House private screening were on President Woodrow Wilson. How would the President respond to the groundbreaking new film Birth of a Nation, directed by D.W. Griffith and based off Thomas Dixon Jr.’s 1905 novel ...
