For those that have seen the movie Birth of A Nation please help!?

Question

How has history been depicted in the Birth of A Nation? What message is being conveyed? What is the perspective of the filmmaker?
Thanks so much! I'd appreciate if you'd help.

Answer 1

The Birth of a Nation was based on a popular, if incredibly racist novel of the early 1900s titled The Klansman, which glorified the creation and white supremecist aims of the Ku Klux Klan during the Post-Civil War Reconstruction era in the South. The film's director, D.W.Griffith, was born and raised in the South, and grew up listening to the stories of the Civil War and the Reconstruction from his father and grandfather, who held traditional Southern prejudices.
When he made the film, Griffith expanded on the novel's story, and made an epic story of the Civil War, centering on two families who become involved in the conflict, yet involving the issue of slavery, the Post-War South, politics and society.
Sadly, his prejudices and the novel's racism also remained intact in the film, and the historical lesson that seems to be being taught is that blacks were inferior beings, easily led by villainous Northerners to take a harsh vengeance on the conquered South, and that only the true and morally righteous white race could, and should, rule.
When riots ensued after the opening of his film, Griffith was astounded and upset. In his view, what he had filmed was a representation of historical truth, as he understood it.

Answer 2

If you've never seen it the black man freed from slavery was good for nothing except raping and killing white women and only the KKK could save us.