ludicrous, disgusting perversion of history

Rating: 1/10 (5 July 2001)

At the base of Griffith's film, for all its importance to early American cinema, is a ridiculous, unbelievable, perverted distortion of history which champions the Ku Klux Klan as the "saviors" of the "endangered" white race. Prefiguring Nazi Germany's rise to power on the same principles less than twenty years later, Griffith's wretched ode to something which never happened stands as a shameful piece of American cinematic history.