D.W. Griffith is one of Hollywood’s most controversial figures. He is best known for making 1915’s cinematically revolutionary “The Birth of a Nation,” a film so racist it is often cited as the main ...

This article first appeared on the Center for American Progress site. Who would have imagined that a black filmmaker would push back on Hollywood's racism by making a historical film about an ...

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 stylized ...

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 ...

Brandeis University film professor and historian Tom Doherty revisits the release — and assesses the damage — of D.W. Griffith's landmark film. By Thomas Doherty The Birth of a Nation Still - H 2015 ...

Petitioners in LA want an iconic filmmaker's name, D.W. Griffith, scrubbed from an East LA school because of his 1915 epic that glorified the Civil War-era Ku Klux Klan. Film critics are torn over the ...

In 1916 a 41-year-old man in Los Angeles published a short pamphlet called “The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America.” In passionate if somewhat pompous tones, the author described motion pictures ...

D.W. Griffith has been reduced by his critics to a “yes, but …” sentence. Was the native Kentuckian a great director? Yes, but some of his films, including his masterpiece, The Birth of a Nation, were ...

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.) ...

Prior to his premature death at age 45 in 1955, James Agee was our most artful composer of film criticism, and what he recommended, one would do well to check out. It might seem quaint now, but Agee ...

It also includes new colorized intertitle cards. D.W. Griffith’s 1915 black-and-white classic “The Birth of a Nation” has been colorized. Named one of the hundred best films of all time, this new ...