The bird of nation.

This movie from 1915, caused controversial problems, because of its racist portrayal of the period after US civil war.
In thisMovie there are some technical aspects, D.W. Griffith, is a crucial figure in the history of American cinema. In movies such as Intolerance and Broken Blossoms, and especially in The Birth of a Nation, he introduced a number of new techniques and styles, like, the long, narrative movie, the close-up, the wide angle shot. He also helped encourage the careers of some of Hollywood's first movie stars, especially the Gish sisters (Lillian Gish plays the main female character in Birth of A Nation) and Mary Pickford. Both the Gishes and Pickford became famous actresses and influential Hollywood figures who produced movies of their own.
The Civil War saw Americans take arms against each other over issues such as slavery and federal versus state power that had existed since the founding of the United States. The period after the war, known as Reconstruction, was just as tense and controversial. After the South lost the war, both northern and southern whites, and African-Americans, struggled to reconstruct the region and the nation.