In 2016, director/actor Nate Parker released his own film called The Birth of a Nation. The name is about the only thing these two movies share, however. Parker's film is a fictionalized portrayal of the slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in 1813. In naming the film, Parker sought to retake the title from the most racist film of all time. We'd wager that he did a pretty good job based on the Google page rankings. (Source)

The Birth of a Nation is now in the public domain, which means that it's totally legal to reproduce and distribute it—that is, if you want people to think that you're a crazy racist. (Source)

Thomas Dixon Jr., author of The Clansman, made a quasi-sequel to The Birth of a Nation in 1916 called The Fall of a Nation. It's an alternate-history film about European forces invading the U.S. Didn't you see the after-credits sequence? They totally spoiled it. (Source)

A man named Louis B. Mayer would find his first success in the film industry distributing The Birth of a Nation in the Northeast. He would use this money to start a little company called…MGM. Mind: blown. (Source)

D.W. Griffith was so offended by the "intolerance" displayed by people who spoke out against The Birth of a Nation that he made a film the following year called Intolerance. The irony of this is so thick that it makes us want to explode. (Source)