Nation Aflame - DVD

Disc 1 The Birth of a Nation One of the most famous silent 'classics' ever made is D.W. Griffith's mammoth drama of one of America's most dramatic moments in history - the Civil War. This film was based upon southerner Thomas Dixon's book The Clansman and told the romanticized story of the struggle of the defeated south against the oppression of the carpetbaggers and scalawags during the reconstructionist period. Griffith's epic has been praised for it's technical aspects, which were far ahead of it's time, and the performance of it's cast. It also has been the cause of heated controversy upon it's and down through the years due to it's anti-African American slant and glorification of the InchOld SouthInch... as well as the foundation of the Ku Klux Klan. Be that as it may, The Birth of a Nation is still possibly one of the most powerful motion pictures ever produced. Silent with a music track. Disc 2 Intolerance Griffith's answer to those who accused his The Birth of a Nation of being racist. He sunk all of his profits from that Civil War feature into the making of this massive movie composed of four separate stories which demonstrates how human intolerance has led to tragedy through the ages.

Daredevil pilot Jim Robbins and his faithful dog, Flash, crash land on a remote South Pacific island. There, Jim meets Molly James, daughter of the local missionary, and the two fall in love. While they wait for the monthly supply boat to offer them passage back to civilization and a happy life together, Jim takes a room at a trading post. He soon discovers that the post's proprietor, Otto Von Krantz, is an unscrupulous petty tyrant who

In 1992, a Texas jury convicted Cameron Todd Willingham (Jack O'Connell) of having willfully set the holiday-season house fire that claimed the lives of his three young children. His protestations of innocence moved playwright Elizabeth Gilbert (Laura Dern) to helm an effort for his exoneration-and deal with a system turning a blind eye to exculpatory evidence in the face of his imminent execution. Edward Zwick's sobering true-life drama co-stars Emily Meade, McKinley Belcher III, Jade Pettyjohn. 127 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.