7.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.1
Overview
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Strong Right
Diversity: Low
Race Swap: Yes
Christianity: Negative
Overview
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
The film's central thesis explicitly promotes white supremacist ideology, portraying Black people as a threat and glorifying the Ku Klux Klan as heroic saviors who restore white dominance and traditional Southern order during the Reconstruction era.
The film utilizes traditional casting, predominantly featuring white characters, and does not incorporate intentional race or gender swaps for diversity. Its narrative consistently portrays traditional identities, particularly white males, in a positive light, without any critical examination.
Secondary
Multiple characters canonically established as Black within the film's narrative were portrayed by white actors in blackface. This casting decision constitutes a race swap.
The film portrays a specific, distorted version of Christianity as the moral foundation for white Southern society, using it to justify white supremacy, racial violence, and the actions of the Ku Klux Klan. The narrative aligns with this problematic interpretation, offering no critique of its use to legitimize oppression. This portrayal reinforces a harmful stereotype of religion being twisted to support bigotry.
The film 'The Birth of a Nation' does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters, relationships, or themes within its narrative. Its primary focus is on racial conflict and historical events during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, without addressing queer identity in any capacity.
The film "The Birth of a Nation" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Its narrative focuses on historical events and racial conflicts, without engaging with transgender identities or experiences.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film adapts characters from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s novels without altering their established genders. There are no instances of characters, historical figures, or previously established roles being portrayed with a different gender.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.1
6.0
Critic Ratings
9.1
N/A
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