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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation

This is one of the highest grossing films in the US apparently.

The film held the mantle of the highest-grossing film until it was overtaken by Gone with the Wind (1939), another film about the Civil War and Reconstruction era.[77][78] By 1940 Time magazine estimated the film's cumulative gross rental (the distributor's earnings) at approximately $15 million.[79] For years Variety had the gross rental listed as $50 million, but in 1977 repudiated the claim and revised its estimate down to $5 million.[74] It is not known for sure how much the film has earned in total, but producer Harry Aitken put its estimated earnings at $1518 million in a letter to a prospective investor in a proposed sound version.[75] It is likely the film earned over $20 million for its backers and generated $50100 million in box office receipts.[4] In a 2015 Time article, Richard Corliss estimated the film had earned the equivalent of $1.8 billion adjusted for inflation, a milestone that at the time had only been surpassed by Titanic (1997) and Avatar (2009) in nominal earnings