The Ku Klux Klan - A Secret History (History Channel)

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Actor: Ku Klux Klan
Brand: A&E
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video

DVD Reviews of The Ku Klux Klan - A Secret History (History Channel)

DVD Review: this was an interesting film
Summary: 3 Stars

I've always found the Klan to be an interesting organization (or should I say, set of organizations, since there are numerous Klan groupings.)

Although White nationalism has moved beyond the stereotypical images of the Klan, this video is a helpful introduction to an organization which had honest beginnings (the protection of helpless White Southerners from the ravages of "Reconstruction" hoodlums), but later turned into an organization whose goals were far removed from their origins.

DVD Review: Africans watch this
Summary: 5 Stars

Very good documentary and very informative.Clear up a lot of missconceptions and tells you the truth.Somrthing children need to see and understand.Starts from 1850-1997 i lov it a must see dvd

DVD Review: informative
Summary: 4 Stars

My 11 year old son was asking about the subject of the KKK, his interest sparked by a book they were reading in school. I wanted to explain it without prejudice and using facts, that I genuinely did not know. So, I turned to this video. Our whole family sat quietly and watched thie History Channel production. It was done so well. Both my sons, (11 & 13 yrs old) understood all that was being told, the language was common, and the deliverance kept their interest. The only negative is that the video, dated 2005, seemed a bit old and had not been updated. The facts were presented in a chronological, easy to understand manner. Persoanlly, I walked away from the video with more knowledge than I expected. The lesson of good turning evil came through loud and clear, and my sons really got it. This is a good video for educational purposes.

DVD Review: Not AT ALL objective
Summary: 1 Stars

As a professor of political science, I've used this DVD in class as a look into the KKK but more so as an examination of bias. Don't ask me how, but the History Channel managed to get through this entire production without using the word DEMOCRAT. They're quick to point out Republican klan involvement in 1920's Indiana, but manage to turn a blind eye to the Democratic Party's klan involvement in the South. It's a valuable lesson in how bias can come in the form of OMISSION. Unless that's your purpose, I strongly recommend avoiding this DVD.

DVD Review: The Seamy Side of Our Democracy
Summary: 4 Stars

The History Channel does a fine, if occasionally subjectively nuanced, job of presenting the viewer with a history of the Ku Klux Klan from it's beginnings in post-Civil War America.

The Klan is an ugly organization, no matter what form it takes. Any group that actively espouses the suppression of others as part of its core beliefs is ugly by definition. When that suppression takes the form of lynchings and bombings and other brutalities, "ugly" as a word does not suffice.

Although some other reviewers have stated that the "Why" of Klan history is missing from this film, and that this film does not present matters from the perspective of Klan members, those criticisms are misplaced. The "Why" of the Ku Klux Klan is part of the fabric of this documentary, and there are certainly enough film clips and short interviews with Klansmen to present a Klan-based perspective. Certainly, comments by robe-wearing Klansmen that "I got no problem if somebody kills a [black]; they don't have the right to breathe free air," and "The only reason [blacks] are free is because some liberal Jew[ish] teacher types freed them," can be taken as statements of creed to judge from history, and not merely individual opinions.

The script does occasionally slide into a less than journalistically neutral tone, but describing the bombing of a church and the killing of four young black girls as a "disgusting" and "terrible" act of violence is not stating more than the truth. The idea that the Klan nowadays is "merely" a Christian fraternal segregationist organization is a dangerous oversimplification. If this is so, then why use the symbols and language of hatred and oppression?

It is far too easy for a viewer to deride the traditional pointed hoods of the Klan as being form-fitting for the membership, but an understanding of the Klan is crucial to understanding our nation. A group which once boasted over 4,000,000 members and effective political control of the entire State of Indiana, not to mention numerous municipalities throughout the United States, is a group which must be reckoned with, even today, if for no other reason than they represent one dark aspect of the underpinnings of our diverse and dynamic society. Xenophobia seems anachronistic in an Internet world shrunk to the size of the head of a pin. Still, it continues to exist, and the whys and wherefores of that existence must be addressed.

Description of The Ku Klux Klan - A Secret History (History Channel)

From its birth out of the ashes of the Civil War to rare interviews with the current Grand Dragon and Imperial Wizard, this is the definitive history of the KKK.

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