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 ...

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.) ...

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 ...

The white fiberglass elephant statues at the Hollywood & Highland shopping center are being removed in a rejection of filmmaker D.W. Griffith’s racist legacy. According to the Los Angeles Times, the ...

Made in 1916 and still ahead of the times, D.W. Griffith’s magnificent epic intercuts four stories set in four different historical periods—an experiment with cinematic time and space that even the ...

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 ...

Kumail Nanjiani had the Beverly Hilton ballroom in stitches Saturday at the 78th DGA Awards about how backwards the guild been for quite some time, specifically with regard to its lifetime achievement ...

The dinosaurs, or least the lizards, stalk again in One Million B.C., one of the big hits of 1940. Released independently through United Artists, this movie has suffered the ragged fate of many such ...