In her sixty-third movie, Gloria Swanson has become for the first time in her thirty-seven-year-old career, a magnificent ...
After the deeply divisive reception of "The Birth of a Nation," director D.W. Griffith released "Broken Blossoms," in which a ...
On Oct. 18, 1924, the Ku Klux Klan held a rally in Worcester, and many Worcester residents struck back. Recalling the tumult, ...
Laura Henson, president of the Talmadge Historical Society, explains the neighborhood’s origins: “Roy Litchy and his brother ...
In the span of five years pioneering director DW Griffith delivered some 450 films for the Biograph Company at a rate of two or three films per week One and two reels in length these works showed ...
They include depictions of unruly, newly emancipated Black men holding public office in D.W. Griffith’s 1915 “The Birth of a Nation” to Trump’s public call for the death penalty for the Black and ...
Steven Spielberg discusses Bruce Springsteen's 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' and his ability to capture John Steinbeck's ...
Many in Hollywood were skeptical of introducing sound to film. Top filmmaker D.W. Griffith dismissed the idea, saying "speaking movies are impossible. When a century has passed, all thought of ...
Find out what’s new this week on streaming services such as Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, Crave, Paramount+, BritBox, CBC Gem and more. Several new films released, but Beetlejuice ...
“I’ve always said I would rebuild Babylon for you,” D.W. Griffith told the actress Lillian Gish one day in 1915. “Now I’m going to do it, and make it part of a new story I have ...
and D.W. Griffith!) have been there since the beginning. When most people think of Hollywood outfits, they think of the upper tier, such as ICM Partners, Creative Artists Agency, or Paradigm.
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 ...