D.W. Griffith
...came an independent producer. Three of Griffith’s movies made him the leading motion picture producer of all time. His movie The Birth of a Nation is considered to be one of the most important films ever made. This movie The Birth of a Nation demonstrates film propaganda to its highest capacity. It had racist elements that motivated riots, protests along with other violence. Griffith’s movie, The Birth of a Nation, was about two families who experienced the Civil War and the time period after the Civil War, the time period of Reconstruction. He wanted his movie to be about the destruction brought about by the Civil War and the social disruptions brought about by the reconstruction time period. Griffith felt propelled to produce this movie based on the propaganda play about the Ku Klux Klan written by Thomas Dixon, The Clansman. Griffith fel...