After the deeply divisive reception of "The Birth of a Nation," director D.W. Griffith released "Broken Blossoms," in which a ...

W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). The domestic melodrama/epic originally premiered with the title The Clansman in February, 1915 in Los Angeles, California, but three months later was ...

There are plenty of great new movies opening in theaters this weekend, including Transformers One, Never Let Go, and Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. Miley Cyrus sued for copying Bruno Mars ...

The program cover features an image of the United States Capitol dome surrounded by a cloud of smoke with the title of the film and name of the director, D.W. Griffith, printed below. The Birth of a ...

Mr. Doherty is a professor in the American Studies Department at Brandeis. The must-see film of 1915—actually, in the annals of silent cinema—was The Birth of a Nation, D.W. Griffith’s ...

A parody of D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", "I Am Not a Racist" rearranges the scenes of the classic movie and recreates its dialogues to criticize the racism in it and also in the world ...

In director D.W. Griffith's landmark, historical blockbuster epic film (America's first) - it was based on former North Carolina Baptist minister Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr.'s anti-black, 1905 bigoted ...

Based on the Rev. Thomas Dixon’s deliriously racist “The Clansman”, a melodramatic novel about the American Civil War and its aftermath Griffith’s film is remarkable, for its technical innovations and ...

Based on the Rev. Thomas Dixon’s deliriously racist “The Clansman”, a melodramatic novel about the American Civil War and it’s aftermath, Griffith’s film is remarkable, for it’s technical innovations ...

The Birth of a Nation covers a period of several years and is centered ... Undeniably a cinematic spectacle, cited for D. W. Griffith’s daring techniques in creating the vocabulary of film, it is a ...