What Dominic Sandbrook has said about The Birth of a Nation
2 quotes · 1 episode · Mar 29, 2026
Dominic Sandbrook, British historian, author and co-host of The Rest Is History, has been quoted on The Birth of a Nation 2 times in 1 episode of The Rest Is History, most recently on March 29, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Sandbrook calls The Birth of a Nation the most influential feature film ever made and the foundational film of cinema history.
“the result was probably the most influential and important feature film that has ever been made”
The Rest Is History: 656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3) (Mar 29, 2026) · Listen from 13:20
Sandbrook says the famous Wilson line about history written with lightning first appeared only in the 1930s, after Wilson's death.
“Actually, that quotation didn't appear until the 1930s after Wilson was dead”
The Rest Is History: 656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3) (Mar 29, 2026) · Listen from 18:01
Episodes
656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3)The Rest Is History · Mar 29, 2026 · 1 h 15 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the 1915 rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan as a mass fraternal, marketing-driven, anti-Catholic movement.
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