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 ...
Why No One Is Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Feature FilmThe production that gave birth to an industry — and helped shape our national character — was the virulently racist Birth of a Nation ...
Birth of a Movement premieres on PBS’s Independent Lens on Monday, February 6, 2017. In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Birth of a Movement, we learn about the childhood of iconic ...
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 ...