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The Resource Independent lens : the battle against America's first blockbuster, Birth of a movement, Northern Lights Productions presents ; directors, Susan Gray, Bestor Cram ; producers, Bestor Cram, Susan Gray, Matthew MacLean ; a presentation of Northern Lights Productions, in association with Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET

Independent lens : the battle against America's first blockbuster, Birth of a movement, Northern Lights Productions presents ; directors, Susan Gray, Bestor Cram ; producers, Bestor Cram, Susan Gray, Matthew MacLean ; a presentation of Northern Lights Productions, in association with Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET

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In 1915, civil rights activist William Monroe 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. Includes interviews with Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and DJ Spooky
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Independent lens : the battle against America's first blockbuster, Birth of a movement
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the battle against America's first blockbuster
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Birth of a movement
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Northern Lights Productions presents ; directors, Susan Gray, Bestor Cram ; producers, Bestor Cram, Susan Gray, Matthew MacLean ; a presentation of Northern Lights Productions, in association with Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET
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In 1915, civil rights activist William Monroe 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. Includes interviews with Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and DJ Spooky
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In English
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Narrated by Danny Glover ; with Vincent Brown, William Jelani Cobb, Dick Lehr, Dolita Cathcart, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ira Gallen, Bob Bellinger, David Blight, Ira Gallen, Herbert Haines, Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, DJ Spooky, Charlie Musser, Charlene Regester, Ellen Scott, Melvyn Stokes
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  • Gray, Susan
  • Cram, Bestor
  • MacLean, Matthew
  • Glover, Danny
  • Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
  • Northern Lights Productions
  • Thirteen Productions
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  • Trotter, William Monroe
  • Griffith, D. W.
  • Racism in motion pictures
  • African American editors
  • United States
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Independent lens : the battle against America's first blockbuster, Birth of a movement, Northern Lights Productions presents ; directors, Susan Gray, Bestor Cram ; producers, Bestor Cram, Susan Gray, Matthew MacLean ; a presentation of Northern Lights Productions, in association with Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET
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1 online resource (55 minutes)
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Independent lens : the battle against America's first blockbuster, Birth of a movement, Northern Lights Productions presents ; directors, Susan Gray, Bestor Cram ; producers, Bestor Cram, Susan Gray, Matthew MacLean ; a presentation of Northern Lights Productions, in association with Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET
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Title from resource description page (viewed June 18, 2019)
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online resource
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rdacarrier
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two-dimensional moving image
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  • tdi
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rdacontent
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  • unknown
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1 online resource (55 minutes)
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online
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  • computer
  • video
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  • rdamedia
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(OCoLC)1112130421
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