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Spurred by post-World War II spending, the United States experienced massive economic growth in the 1940s and 1950s that changed both the social structure of the nation and its culture. The United States had a per capita income of $1453 while citizens of Great Britain and France who were still reeling from the war earned… MORE
Though few filmmakers touched on the conflict during the war itself, a slew of films commenting on Vietnam appeared in the late 1970s and 1980s, all arguably advancing political and ideological agendas relevant to their present.
At the close of the film, after the triumph of the Ku Klux Klan, and the final intertitle rolled across screen, all eyes at the White House private screening were on President Woodrow Wilson. How would the President respond to the groundbreaking new film Birth of a Nation, directed by D.W. Griffith and based off… MORE
Divisive enough to result in the deaths of young protesters on the home front, the Vietnam War challenged the United States in unprecedented ways. Influenced in no small part by emerging visual media such as color television, public opinion would mirror the news industry’s changing attitude towards what it came to perceive as an unwinnable… MORE