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![Isn't Life Wonderful [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21SPT4Z85EL._SL160_.jpg "Isn't Life Wonderful [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Carol Dempster
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Neil Hamilton
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Erville Alderson
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Helen Lowell
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Marcia Harris
Director:
D.W. Griffith
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![Intolerance [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21W4KJXAYRL._SL160_.jpg "Intolerance [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Lillian Gish
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Douglas Fairbanks
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Mae Marsh
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Robert Harron
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F.A. Turner
Director:
D.W. Griffith
After Birth of a Nation, what do you do for an encore, especially after said film has branded you a racist? D.W. Griffith, the silent era's "king of the world," mounted this melodramatic spectacle of "Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages," four stories that illustrate "how hatred and intolerance have battled against love and charity." Critic Heywood Broun, upon the film's release, probably said it best: "Quite the most marvelous thing which has been put on the screen, but as a theory of life it is trite." But what's on the screen is dazzling! Griffith interweaves the four parallel stories set, respectively, in the modern era (fuddy-duddy reformers and a workers' strike), Jerusalem (Christ's crucifixion), 1572 Paris (a "hotbed" of persecution against the Huguenots), and ancient Babylon. No collection of silent films is complete without this landmark, awe-inspiring epic, which really does boast a cast of thousands (the most memorable of which is Constance Talmadge as the spunky Mountain Girl). The fall of Babylon ranks with one of the great action set pieces, complete with racing chariots, a nifty decapitation (at the hands of Elmo Lincoln, the man who would be Tarzan), and ...
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![Corner in Wheat & Selected Biograph Shorts 1909-1913 -- The Masterworks of D.W. Griffith Vol. 1 [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5172WA4308L._SL160_.jpg "Corner in Wheat & Selected Biograph Shorts 1909-1913 -- The Masterworks of D.W. Griffith Vol. 1 [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Frank Powell
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Grace Henderson
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James Kirkwood
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Linda Arvidson
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W. Chrystie Miller
Director:
D.W. Griffith
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![Way Down East [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21BNF4G41PL._SL160_.jpg "Way Down East [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Lillian Gish
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Richard Barthelmess
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Lowell Sherman
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Burr McIntosh
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Kate Bruce
Director:
D.W. Griffith
In what may have been his most brilliant surprise, D.W. Griffith transformed an archaic melodrama about a wronged woman into a transcendent love story of redemption. Lillian Gish plays an innocent New Englander seduced by an urbane charmer (Lowell Sherman), who arranges a mock marriage and then abandons her when she's pregnant. When the baby dies from illness, Gish leaves the city and changes her identity. She finds herself reborn in the pastoral splendor of a farming community, catching the adoring eye of a young idealist (Richard Barthelmess), only to have the past come back to haunt her. Griffith made two kinds of films: spectacles and love stories. It's the tremulous love stories such as Way Down East that have endured the best. This 1920 film is a triumph of humanity over cruelty, a work that brilliantly conveys emotion through environment. The famous climax on the floating river of ice is still amazing--especially since it uses no special effects. --Bill Desowitz
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![The Musketeers of Pig Alley & Selected Biograph Shorts [VHS]](http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/video/icons/video-no-image.gif "The Musketeers of Pig Alley & Selected Biograph Shorts [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Lillian Gish
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Elmer Booth
Director:
D.W. Griffith
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![Home Sweet Home & Judith of Bethulia [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21WR2T8HQML._SL160_.jpg "Home Sweet Home & Judith of Bethulia [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Blanche Sweet
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Henry B. Walthall
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Mae Marsh
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Robert Harron
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Lillian Gish
Director:
D.W. Griffith
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![Birth of a Nation (1915) (Silent) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21YPBGNVGPL._SL160_.jpg "Birth of a Nation (1915) (Silent) [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Lillian Gish
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Mae Marsh
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Henry B. Walthall
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Miriam Cooper
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Mary Alden
Director:
D.W. Griffith
A pivotal moment in film history. After The Birth of a Nation, nothing was the same: not the way audiences watched movies, not the way filmmakers created them. D.W. Griffith's jumbo-size saga of the Civil War expanded the boundaries of storytelling on the screen, conveying a richer, more complicated (and certainly longer) tale than anyone had seen in a movie before. The delicate relationships, the sad passage of time, the spectacular battle scenes all look as fresh and innovative today as they did in 1915. So do Griffith's brilliant actors, most of them--including favorite leading lady Lillian Gish--drawn from his regular stock company. What has become increasingly problematic about The Birth of a Nation is Griffith's condescending attitude toward black slaves, and the ringing excitement surrounding the founding of the Ku Klux Klan. Griffith, whose political ideas were naive at best, seemed genuinely surprised by the criticism of his masterwork, and for his next project he turned to the humanist preaching of the massive Intolerance. Despite protests, Birth sold more tickets than any other movie, a record that stood for decades, and President Woodrow Wils...
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![Hearts of the World [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/2165656YN9L._SL160_.jpg "Hearts of the World [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Lillian Gish
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Dorothy Gish
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D.W. Griffith
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David Lloyd George
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Edward Grey
Director:
D.W. Griffith
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![Orphans of the Storm / Silent [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21467XFF7RL._SL160_.jpg "Orphans of the Storm / Silent [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Lillian Gish
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Dorothy Gish
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Joseph Schildkraut
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Monte Blue
Director:
D.W. Griffith
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![Birth of a Nation (Silent) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511FHDFNJBL._SL160_.jpg "Birth of a Nation (Silent) [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Lillian Gish
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Mae Marsh
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Henry B. Walthall
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Miriam Cooper
,
Mary Alden
Director:
D.W. Griffith
A pivotal moment in film history. After The Birth of a Nation, nothing was the same: not the way audiences watched movies, not the way filmmakers created them. D.W. Griffith's jumbo-size saga of the Civil War expanded the boundaries of storytelling on the screen, conveying a richer, more complicated (and certainly longer) tale than anyone had seen in a movie before. The delicate relationships, the sad passage of time, the spectacular battle scenes all look as fresh and innovative today as they did in 1915. So do Griffith's brilliant actors, most of them--including favorite leading lady Lillian Gish--drawn from his regular stock company. What has become increasingly problematic about The Birth of a Nation is Griffith's condescending attitude toward black slaves, and the ringing excitement surrounding the founding of the Ku Klux Klan. Griffith, whose political ideas were naive at best, seemed genuinely surprised by the criticism of his masterwork, and for his next project he turned to the humanist preaching of the massive Intolerance. Despite protests, Birth sold more tickets than any other movie, a record that stood for decades, and President Woodrow Wils...
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