Independent Lens
Season 18 Episode 7 - Birth of a Movement
6.5 ?
1999
Documentary
In 1915, African American newspaper editor and activist William M. Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith’s notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. The Birth of a Movement features Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and DJ
Episodes in Season 18
1
Best of Enemies
60 min
2
Meet the Patels
60 min
3
Best and Most Beautiful Things
60 min
4
Containment
60 min
5
What Was Ours
60 min
6
The Witness
60 min
7
Birth of a Movement
60 min
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8
Accidental Courtesy
60 min
9
TOWER
60 min
10
The Bad Kids
60 min
11
Ovarian Psycos
60 min
12
Newtown
60 min
13
SEED: The Untold Story
60 min
14
The Last Laugh
60 min
15
National Bird
60 min
16
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
60 min
17
Forever Pure
60 min
18
They Call Us Monsters
60 min
19
Farmer/Veteran
60 min
20
Real Boy
60 min
