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 ...

This week 101 years ago, filmmaker D.W. Griffith premiered The Birth of a Nation, his groundbreaking and controversial silent movie about the Civil War.

D.W. Griffith’s three-hour Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation, was released in April 1915 after a special showing in March at President Woodrow Wilson’s White House.

In 1915, black journalist Monroe Trotter tried to get D.W. Griffith’s troubling film banned in Boston, igniting a furious debate over racism, censorship, and free expression.

Acknowledging that D.W. Griffith's racist history of the Ku Klux Klan is a masterpiece is the only way to appreciate how powerful his bigotry was.

D.W. Griffith's 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation" is a sorry footnote in Hollywood's history of projects about the Ku Klux Klan.

Griffith's 1915 silent film is now considered KKK propaganda. By Mia Galuppo The promotion for Nate Parker‘s The Birth of a Nation has been rife with powerful images. The first poster saw a ...

D.W. Griffith’s 1915 classic "The Birth of a Nation", which documents the birth of the Ku Klux Klan, revolutionized the film industry but was accused by some of having a racist storyline. Now, a ...

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 ...

Since many high school students across the country will be back to learning their history of the US from Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind, it's perhaps instructive to recall that when ...

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 ...