The Battle (1911 film)

{{short description|1911 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Battle

| image = The Battle (1911 film).jpg

| caption = Film still

| director = D. W. Griffith

| producer =

| writer =

| starring = Charles West
Blanche Sweet

| cinematography = G. W. Bitzer

| editing =

| distributor = Biograph Company

| released = {{film date|1911|11|6}}

| runtime = 19 minutes (16 frame/s)

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

The Battle is a 1911 American silent war film directed by D. W. Griffith. The film was set during the American Civil War. It was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based at the beginning of the 20th century.{{Citation |last=Koszarski |first=Richard |title=Fort Lee: The Film Town |place=Rome, Italy |publisher=John Libbey Publishing - CIC srl |year=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5w0r8YKan04C&q=Fort+Lee:+the+film+town+Door+Richard+Koszarski |isbn= 0-86196-653-8 }}{{Cite web | title=Studios and Films |publisher=Fort Lee Film Commission |url=http://www.fortleefilm.org/studios.html |access-date=May 30, 2011 |archive-date=April 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110425014840/http://www.fortleefilm.org/studios.html |url-status=dead }}{{Citation |last=Fort Lee Film Commission |title=Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2006 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ViR3b72xkK0C&q=Fort+Lee+Birthplace+of+the+Motion+Picture+Industry |isbn=0-7385-4501-5 }} Prints of the film survive in several film archives around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, UCLA Film and Television Archive, George Eastman House, and the Filmoteca Española.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/Battle1911.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: The Battle |access-date=July 12, 2008|work=silentera.com}}