Nate Parker’s Oscar-bait film the Birth of a Nation took its title from another film, released 100 years before, in which the Ku Klux Klan rescues white women from black men. Ironically, his career was derailed when it was revealed that Parker himself was once falsely accused of raping a white woman. — Nate Parker received a standing ovation before his film, the Birth of a Nation, ever even screened at the Sundance. The crowd, at the film’s premiere, was just that moved by the story of how the film came to be. …