In March, 1915, under President Woodrow Wilson, “The Birth of a Nation” became the first film to be screened at the White House. Set mostly in South Carolina, ...

President Woodrow Wilson, ... The July 9 Retropolis column “How ‘The Birth of a Nation’ revived the KKK in 1915” [Metro] was right on target.

On Feb. 18, 1915, President Wilson held a private screening of “The Birth of a Nation” in the White House. It was the first such event, if you don’t count the White House lawn screening of ...

"But not since Woodrow Wilson showed 'Birth of a Nation' in the White House has an American president been so flagrant in his racial messaging as this one. Today, ...

In 1915, black journalist Monroe Trotter tried to get D.W. Griffith’s troubling film banned in Boston, igniting a furious debate over racism, censorship, and free expression.

Wilson’s Johns Hopkins classmate and lifelong friend Thomas Dixon wrote the novel that became the silent movie “The Birth of a Nation.” Wilson made this celebration of the Ku Klux Klan the ...

Originally distributed as “The Clansman,” “The Birth of a Nation,” under the patronage of Woodrow Wilson, became the first movie to be shown at the White House.

D.W. Griffith’s 1915 silent feature “The Birth of a Nation” is a landmark of ... it is considered a groundbreaking use of cinema — Woodrow Wilson reportedly called called it “history ...

WASHINGTON — In 1915, Woodrow Wilson gathered a small crowd in the East Room of the White House to show “The Birth of a Nation,” a film celebrating the Ku Klux Klan.

In his lifetime, Woodrow Wilson (1856 to 1924) bore witness to some of the most tumultuous times in American history. The Civil War raged during his childhood; as the nation’s 28 th president ...

On this day in 1915, “The Birth of a Nation,” a controversial silent film, ... Under President Woodrow Wilson, it was the first motion picture to be shown at the White House.