Birth of a Nation

Question 1

Birth of a Nation

Answer 1

(1915) Racist film that promoted the “Lost Cause”

Directed by DW Griffith

Based on Thomas Dixon’s “The Clansmen”

First example of cinema misleading society and shaping stereotypes and attitudes

Strongly Opposed by NAACP

Shown in the white house by W.Wilson

Question 2

DW Griffith

Answer 2

Directed Birth of a Nation

Question 3

Thomas Dixon

Answer 3

Wrote The Clansmen in 1905 which presented a sympathetic picture of the KKK

Inspired Birth of a Nation

Question 4

Lost Cause & KKK

Answer 4

Reinforced Lost Cause myth and restarted the KKK