DW Griffith may well have been one of the great pioneers of early cinema, but he also proved himself to be incredibly asinine and insensitive in adapting a notoriously racist novel for the screen. His revisionist 1915 Civil War epic, in which two families are divided by the conflict, portrays the defeat of the South as a glorious misfortune and has the peace being won by the Ku Klux Klan.
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