After the deeply divisive reception of “The Birth of a Nation,” director D.W. Griffith released “Broken Blossoms,” in which a young, abused girl finds comfort in the company of a kind Chinese man. The ...

After the successful bid to tear down the Confederate flag from sites across the country, petitioners in LA want an iconic filmmaker's name, D.W. Griffith, scrubbed from an East LA school because of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Someone’s racist past has finally caught up to him. The elephants, which are an homage to a set from Griffith’s 1916 film ...

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: In the spirit of Life Of Riley, the final film by Alain Resnais, we’ve singled out other ...

The previous two columns featured Oldham County native Richard James Oglesby, a three-term governor of Illinois, U.S. Senator and close friend of Abraham Lincoln’s. Oglesby was credited as a key ...

This Presidents Day, on Monday, February 17, 2025, at 2 PM, The Park Theatre in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, will host a special free screening of the 1930 classic film Abraham Lincoln directed by the ...

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Is it possible to get past the controversy of Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to see his pioneering contributions to the language of movies? On DVD, the answer may be yes. (Credit: Bison Archives.) ...

D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation is inarguably one of the landmarks of American cinema. The distillation of the storytelling techniques, editing ideas, framing and visual composition, and nuanced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the deeply divisive reception of "The Birth of a Nation," director D.W. Griffith released "Broken Blossoms," in which a ...