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The Cynical Historian
The Birth of a Nation | Based on a True Story
The Birth of Nation was the first major motion picture success, and because of its historical inaccuracy, the Ku Klux Klan was revived for another round of terror. This is the worst case of a Based on a True Story film. So today is a...
Crash Course
Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows: Crash Course Theater #30
We’re continuing our discussion of nineteenth-century American theater with a look at some upsetting parts of the US's theatrical past. In the nineteenth century, race and racism contributed to a unique and troubling performance...
Curated Video
The Good Samaritan, 1920s
Drama of the biblical story of The Good Samaritan shot on location in Palestine in the 1920s. It is an excerpt from a 60 minute independently made silent feature film, released in the U.S. in 1925, called "The Man Nobody Knows", directed...