Why was D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation controversial?

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D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation was controversial because it attempted to portray the Ku Klux Klan favorably. Though the film has been enmeshed with controversy for nearly a century, it has not faded from the forefront of history because it was one of the first full-length motion pictures. To make matters worse, not only did the film depict the KKK in a positive light, it featured an epigraph praising the Klan written by President Woodrow Wilson, a rabid racist.

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