D. W. Griffith

Two sisters are caught up in the French revolution of 1789.

Four separate, interwoven stories, unified by the common theme of man's inhumanity to fellow man. The Babylonian story deals with the fall of Babylon in 538 B.C. The Judean story treats the life of Christ. The French story centers on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572. The modern story is set in an American mill town and the slum area of an American city.

Great train robbery: Bandits tie up the station master, stop the train, rob the mail car, take the passengers' valuables, and then escape; and the station master's daughter frees her father, alerts a group at a dance who then chase and overtake the robbers. DVD contains two editions: the original silent archival version provided by the Library of Congress and a digitally enhanced version with new music and effects track and color tinted sequences. Heart...

The two-disc set compiles one and two reel films directed by Griffith during his six-year position with the American Biograph Company, 1908-1913. Having made over 450 shorts before leaving Biograph to make feature films, these works showcase Griffith's early steps towards developing a cinematic language for narrative cinema.

The oldest and cutest of a group of rebellious orphans, July Abbott is provided with funds for her education and well-being by a mysterious benefactor whom she christens "Daddy-long-legs."

A Civil War spectacular. Portrays life in the South during and after the Civil War as revealed in a story depicting the war itself, the conflict between the defeated Southerners and emancipated renegade Negroes, the despoiling of the South during the carpetbagger period, and the revival of the Southern white man's honor through the efforts of the Ku Klux Klan.

A young Chinaman in London's squalid Limehouse district hopes to spread the peaceful philosophy of his Eastern religion. He befriends a pitiful street waif who is mistreated by her brutal father. Nursing her back to health, tragedy results when an unspoken romance flowers between them.

While returning to the historic era of his greatest success, D.W. Griffith pays homage to the sixteenth President in this moving drama. Focusing on Lincoln's personal tragedies, as well as his greatest accomplishments.

This epic story of the Civil War as seen through the lives of two families is a controversial classic of film history.

This epic Civil War drama, using the interwoven stories of two families, one Southern and one Northern, is one of the most influential films in the history of the cinema and, because of its racism, one of the most controversial.