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 ...

Premiere in Los Angeles -- Thomas Dixon, Jr. -- David Wark Griffith -- Making The birth of a nation -- Transforming the American movie audience -- Fighting a vicious film -- Griffith's view of history ...

While “The Birth of a Nation,” one of the most controversial films of the 20th century, was the talk of the town in 1916 in Rochester, at least one sober voice tried to connect movie-goers with ...

The 1915 silent film “The Birth of a Nation” has been acclaimed as one of the greatest achievements in motion picture history. At the same time, and by many of the same critics and film historians, it ...

The 2016 movie 'The Birth of a Nation' is named after the infamous Ku Klux Klan propaganda film of the same name that was released a century prior House bars Rep. Max Miller after heated clash with ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

For me, silent films usually conjure images of mustache-twirling evil-doers, jazz-age slapstick or, more chillingly, D.W. Griffith’s groundbreaking yet racist opus, The Birth of a Nation. Griffith ...