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D.W. Griffith's 'Abraham Lincoln' [VHS]

D.W. Griffith's 'Abraham Lincoln' [VHS]

Staring: Walter Huston , Una Merkel , William L. Thorne , Lucille La Verne , Helen Freeman
Director: D.W. Griffith

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Birth of a Nation [VHS]

Birth of a Nation [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Lillian Gish , Mae Marsh , Henry B. Walthall , 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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Birth of a Nation [VHS]

Birth of a Nation [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Lillian Gish , Mae Marsh , Henry B. Walthall , 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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Birth of a Nation (Silent) [VHS]

Birth of a Nation (Silent) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Lillian Gish , Mae Marsh , Henry B. Walthall , 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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The Movies Begin, Vol. 5 - Comedy, Spectacle and New Horizons [VHS]

The Movies Begin, Vol. 5 - Comedy, Spectacle and New Horizons [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Mabel Normand , Max Linder , Dorothy Bernard , Wilfred Lucas , Edwin August
Director: Max Linder , Alice Guy , D.W. Griffith , Ferdinand Zecca , Henry Lehrman

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Hearts of the World [VHS]

Hearts of the World [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Lillian Gish , Dorothy Gish , D.W. Griffith , David Lloyd George , Sir Edward Grey
Director: D.W. Griffith

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Abraham Lincoln : Starring Walter Huston

Abraham Lincoln : Starring Walter Huston

Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring: Walter Huston , Edgar Dearing
Director: D.W. Griffith
Movie Classic Series: Abraham Lincon Walter Huston : Edgar Dearing
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Intolerance [VHS]

Intolerance [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Lillian Gish , Douglas Fairbanks , Mae Marsh , Robert Harron , 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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Isn't Life Wonderful [VHS]

Isn't Life Wonderful [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Carol Dempster , Neil Hamilton , Erville Alderson , Helen Lowell , Marcia Harris
Director: D.W. Griffith

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Abraham Lincoln: A New Birth of Freedom [VHS]

Abraham Lincoln: A New Birth of Freedom [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Walter Huston , Una Merkel , William L. Thorne , Lucille La Verne , Helen Freeman
Director: D.W. Griffith

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