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The Fall of a Nation (1916) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1916 · 75 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Thomas F. Dixon Jr.
- Starring
- Paul Willis, Flora MacDonald, Arthur Shirley, Phil Gastrock, Lorraine Huling, Percy Standing
A lost silent drama written by Thomas Dixon as a sequel to D. W. Griffith’s 1915 epic, it delivers Dixon’s stark warning about national vulnerability. Regarded as the first ever film sequel, the story dramatizes a fictional united European army invading the United States, illustrating the perils of complacency.
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