This was the first film screened at the White House.
- Ben Hur
- Birth of a Nation
- King Kong
- Wings
This was the first film screened at the White House.
Birth of a Nation. Shown to President Wilson, the 1915 film was originally titled The Clansman and inspired the revitalization of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. Wilson, a Southerner, said the film was “so terribly true.”