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 director D.W. Griffith (1875-1948) is probably best remembered for his 1915 epic, "The Birth of a Nation," the most ambitious and commercially successful film made in the United States to that ...

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 ...

What do you do when your most famous resident is the greatest white supremacist filmmaker this side of Leni Reifenstahl? That’s kind of the dilemma that Oldham County faces. What the county has ...

Is it possible to get past the controversy of Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to see his pioneering contributions to the language of movies? On DVD, the answer may be yes. (Credit: Bison Archives.) ...