Many shaded of blackface

Do you recognize this scene? Probably not… so let me introduce you to the 1915 American movie “The Birth of a Nation”. The first movie screened inside the White House presents the story about two families which their friendship was affected by the Civil War because both families were fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln’s assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan. Well, for sure a sensitive topic back in time and exploring the thematic through mute cinema can be considered a progressive shot… or not. Let us