The silent movie, The Birth of a Nation , appeared in 1915. In spite of old imperfect technologies and shooting techniques, this movie was a great step towards new art and new understanding of a movie. For this work, D.W. Griffith used a well-known novel The Clansman, by Thomas Dixon’s. It is important to note that the work began in total secrecy in late 1914, and, in spite of the imperfect and unfinished scenario created together with Woods, Griffith worked without a written script. The main controversy and debate was caused by description and portrayal of Ku Klux Klan and white dominance during the Civil war. The first part depicts the pre-war America and describes social and economic relations inside the nation. This part concentrates on two families and such characters as Elsie, and the Southern Camerons(Margaret and Flora and three sons, most notably Ben. The main themes are abolitionist movement and political climate. The core of the second part is Reconstruction era. A special attention is given to Southern whites and the formation and organization of Ku Klux Klan. In general, both parts reflect Griffith’s personal undertaking of the Civil War (Stokes 33). The preparation stage lasted for six weeks, and the shooting lasted nine weeks. The uniqueness was that Grifnth carried around in his head every minor detail of the plot and script including unique titles, settings, costumes, and props. Like Griffith himself, many actors and team members seeing the film after its first release knew personal details of the military operations from parents who had survived the war, and the political and social issues produced by the conflict still ran very deep. The cast of the movie and team were amazed at the number of camera set-ups Griffith wanted for a single scene, and no one imagined how Griffith intended to pull together into a single monies the thousands of separate shots the director was taking. Griffith did definitely have a grand plan for his movie, because he was quite deliberately involved in creating the greatest money ever made, but this should not vague the fact that Griffith was a great entrepreneur whose finest talents were often improvised on the set to meet some detailed requirement of the narrative or the shooting scenes. Originally, the movie involved more than 1,544 separate shots. It was impressive number as in the silent movie epoch in which the most sophisticated of foreign spectacles contained fewer than one hundred as in The Clansman . When the final changes were done, Griffith had achieved on a huge scale the almost total incorporation of every narrative technique he had ever used in movie and in partnership with the composer Joseph Carl Breil Griffith had involved an orchestral sounds from the music of Grieg, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Liszt, Rossini, Verdi, and American folk and some popular songs, which noticeably paralleled the editing permanence of the movie (Stokes 54). The Birth of a Nation was the longest and most expensive movie pf this period, and because of its length the existing exchanges refused to allocate it. In order to overcome this difficult, Griffith and Aitken started their own company, the Epoch Producing Corpora