Another historically inaccurate film, Birth of a Nation, was a controversial film that was watched in the White House by President Woodrow Wilson on March 21, 1915. The Birth of a Nation (1915) directed by D.W. Griffith was adopted from Thomas Dixon’s novel, The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905). The novel is based on what Dixon believed to be fact. Black Americans began to protest the film because of they were not portrayed in a positive light. Birth of a Nation made Reconstruction look as though it was a disaster for America. The Civil War addressed the issue of slavery and getting slavery owners out of power - all positive reasons to begin a war for the land of the free. Birth of a Nation was restating William Dunning’s
