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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1460

The Red Man's View

190915 minUnited States

Synopsis

An Indigenous community is forced to retreat as white settlers advance. The film presents displacement through the people losing their home, turning a familiar western situation toward the experience of those being driven away.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 14:35
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · D.W. Griffith (direction), G.W. Bitzer (cinematography), Frank E. Woods (script) · Public domain

Cast

Owen Moore

James Kirkwood

DirectorsD. W. Griffith

Historical context

Griffith filmed the short in New York State. Its sympathetic intention coexists with an outsider's melodramatic portrayal of Indigenous people, rather than an account made from within the represented community.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Owen Moore — Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research · Public domain
James Kirkwood — Unknown author Unknown author; Photoplay magazine · Public domain

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