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 ...

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 1930 film “Abraham Lincoln,” directed by D.W. Griffith, stands as a notable early talkie that ambitiously portrays the life of the 16th President of the United States. Griffith, who was known for ...

Someone’s racist past has finally caught up to him. The elephants, which are an homage to a set from Griffith’s 1916 film Intolerance, are being removed as part of a larger set of redesigns by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’s a great time for the classic cinema in New York right now, and three of the prime series at hand—the two parts of the Jean Rouch retrospective, at French Institute Alliance Française and ...

The white fiberglass elephant statues at the Hollywood & Highland shopping center are being removed in a rejection of filmmaker D.W. Griffith’s racist legacy. According to the Los Angeles Times, the ...

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 ...

Someone’s racist past has finally caught up to him. It was reported by the LA Times that the new owners of Hollywood & Highland, DJM and Gaw Capital Partners, are dismantling a pair of white elephants ...