Birth of a Movement [440190]
Released: 2017-02-06
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0
Profit: $0
Runtime: 57 mins
Popularity: 0.2674
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Overview: In 1915, Boston-based African American newspaper editor and activist William M. Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith’s technically groundbreaking but notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly The Birth of a Nation, unleashing a fight that still rages today about race relations, media representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement, based on Dick Lehr's book The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights, captures the backdrop to this prescient clash between human rights, freedom of speech, and a changing media landscape.

Cast [4]
Danny Glover
Narrator
Spike Lee
Self
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self
Reginald Hudlin
Self

Trailers
  1. Independent Lens | Birth of a Movement | Trailer | PBS