Special Features
Disc 1 - Blu-ray; Music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (2011); Spoken Introduction by D.W. Griffith and Walter Huston (including the newly rediscovered intermission sequence); ; Disc 2 - DVD; The Birth of a Nation, restored by David Shepard of Film Preservation Associates in 1993; ; Orchestral Score adapted in 1993 from the original Score by Joseph Carl Breil, in 2.0 stereo; ; "The Making of The Birth of a Nation" (24 min.) Produced by David Shepard; Compiled and Written by Russell Merritt; ; Disc 3 - DVD; Civil War shorts Directed by D.W. Griffith: (Music by Jon C. Mirsalis unless indicated); ; In the Border States (1910, 16 min.); The House With Closed Shutters (1910, 17 Min.); The Fugitive (1910, 17 Min.); His Trust (1910, 14 Min.) Courtesy of David Shepard; Musical setting compiled and arranged by Robert Israel; Performed by the Biograph Quartet; ; His Trust Filled (1910, 11 Min.); ; Swords and Hearts (1911, 16 Min.); The Battle (1911, 17 min.); ; "New York vs. The Birth of a Nation" Archival documents pertaining to the censorship battles over the film's 1922 re-release; ; Excerpts from souvenir program books