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 ...

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 ...

By the time Pancho Villa was killed in an ambush in 1923, Raoul Walsh was making a name for himself behind the camera as one of filmdom’s finest directors. Hopefully he remembered that he owed his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...