The Birth of a Nation was a 1915 feature film that became a nationwide blockbuster in its day. Which is not true about the film? A) President Woodrow Wilson screened the film in the White House. B) It is often hailed as a landmark of innovative filmmaking. C) It is a film that casts the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan as heroic. D) It condemns racial prejudice and xenophobia.

The Birth of a Nation was a 1915 feature film that became a nationwide blockbuster in its day. Which is not true about the film? A) President Woodrow Wilson screened the film in the White House. B) It is often hailed as a landmark of innovative filmmaking. C) It is a film that casts the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan as heroic. D) It condemns racial prejudice and xenophobia.

Answer

The correct answer is D. D.W. Griffith's 1915 film 'The Birth of a Nation' is notorious for its white supremacist ideology, not for condemning prejudice. Therefore, statement D is the incorrect statement about the film. To explain for the other options: A is true, as it was the first film ever screened at the White House; B is true, as it introduced revolutionary cinematic techniques like close-ups and parallel editing; and C is true, as the film explicitly portrays the KKK as a 'heroic' force saving the South.