By Bill Buell Gazette Reporter As the son of a Confederate colonel, it was impossible for D.W. Griffith to make a film like “The Birth of a Nation” and not have it reflect his own experience growing up in Kentucky in post-Civil War America.
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By Bill Buell Gazette Reporter As the son of a Confederate colonel, it was impossible for D.W. Griffith to make a film like “The Birth of a Nation” and not have it reflect his own experience growing up in Kentucky in post-Civil War America.