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 ...

Before there was Tinseltown, this quiet Sound Shore town served as a backdrop to a number of D.W. Griffith films. One hundred years ago, the heart of American moviemaking wasn’t so much Hollywood as ...

“Liberal” Hollywood was always cautious with the KKK, which was a big economic factor, especially in the South. The 1937 Humphrey Bogart film “Black Legion” featured hooded terrorists who are ...

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 ...

For his next film, Griffith had a breathtakingly original concept. “Intolerance,” screening once Saturday in a stunning new digital 167-minute restoration at the Castro Theatre, was not a huge ...

D.W. Griffith is one of Hollywood’s most controversial figures. He is best known for making 1915’s cinematically revolutionary “The Birth of a Nation,” a film so racist it is often cited as the main ...

French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier is one of the most admirable figures in cinema over the past 45 years. In 2003, we wrote that Tavernier belonged to a select group of contemporary directors whose ...

CHAMPAIGN – Steve Beckett had expected the D.W. Griffith film "Abraham Lincoln," released in 1930, to be full of factual inaccuracies. After seeing it Friday during LincolnFest at the Virginia Theatre ...