Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the deeply divisive reception of "The Birth of a Nation," director D.W. Griffith released "Broken Blossoms," in which a ...

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 ...

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: In the spirit of Life Of Riley, the final film by Alain Resnais, we’ve singled out other ...

The previous two columns featured Oldham County native Richard James Oglesby, a three-term governor of Illinois, U.S. Senator and close friend of Abraham Lincoln’s. Oglesby was credited as a key ...

Abraham Lincoln is a biographical film that captures the life of the 16th President of the United States, from his humble beginnings in a log cabin to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater.

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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 nuanced ...

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.) ...

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 ...