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 ...

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 ...

That Stygian status is primarily a result of Griffith’s 1915 epic, “ The Birth of a Nation,” in which the Ku Klux Klan play the role that would later belong to the cavalry in 1950s Westerns ...

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 ...

Why No One Is Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Feature Film The production that gave birth to an industry — and helped shape our national character — was the virulently racist Birth of ...

Griffith’s use of the close-up, the point of view, the shot/reverse-shot pattern, and parallel editing enabled him to convince his audiences of a “black menace” that threatened white America.

On Feb. 5, 1919, screen legends Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith formed United Artists.

According to Lubin, D.W. Griffith, the director of the racist epic “The Birth of a Nation,” was a living metaphor who probably influenced their script. After years at the top during the silent ...

At noon on a Friday, two men in the robes of the Ku Klux Klan rode their horses down Pittsfield’s North Street. The date was Jan. 7, 1916, and they were heralding the debut of D.W. Griffith’s film ...

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 ...