Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. D.W. Griffith has been reduced by his critics to a “yes, but …” sentence. Was the native Kentuckian a ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a newly resurfaced video essay, Kevin B. Lee contests that, incredible as “Inception” was, the technical foundation of the film was laid over a century ago by none other than D.W. Griffith. Lee ...

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 ...

This scene from D.W. Griffith's 1915 “Birth of a Nation” romanticizes the Ku Klux Klan and illustrates racism in the United States during the film's time period ...