After the successful bid to tear down the Confederate flag from sites across the country, petitioners in LA want an iconic filmmaker's name, D.W. Griffith, scrubbed from an East LA school because of ...

The greatest filmmakers did not let the limitations of their time hinder their vision. Few figures embody that ambition more ...

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 ...

Before there was Tinseltown, this quiet Sound Shore town served as a backdrop to a number of D.W. Griffith films. One hundred years ago, the heart of American moviemaking wasn’t so much Hollywood as ...

CHAMPAIGN – Steve Beckett had expected the D.W. Griffith film "Abraham Lincoln," released in 1930, to be full of factual inaccuracies. After seeing it Friday during LincolnFest at the Virginia Theatre ...

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.) ...

For his next film, Griffith had a breathtakingly original concept. “Intolerance,” screening once Saturday in a stunning new digital 167-minute restoration at the Castro Theatre, was not a huge ...

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 ...

“Liberal” Hollywood was always cautious with the KKK, which was a big economic factor, especially in the South. The 1937 Humphrey Bogart film “Black Legion” featured hooded terrorists who are ...