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Starring Walter Huston in the Title Role. This is a biography of Abraham Lincoln from the early talking era of Hollywood. It was directed by D. W. Griffith and was released by United Artists. It is now in the public domain.

Cheng Huan is a missionary whose goal is to bring the teachings of peace by Buddha to the civilized Anglo-Saxons. Upon landing in England, he is quickly disillusioned by the intolerance and apathy of the country. He becomes a storekeeper of a small shop. Out his window, he sees the young Lucy Burrows. She is regularly beaten by her prizefighter father, underfed and wears ragged clothes. Even in this deplorable condition, Cheng can see that she is a priceless beauty and he falls in love with her from afar. On the day that she passes out in front of his store, he takes her in and cares for her. With nothing but love in his heart, he dresses her in silks and provides food for her. Still weak, she stays in his shop that night and all that Cheng does is watch over her. The peace and happiness that he sees last only until Battling Burrows finds out that his daughter is with a foreigner.

This film anticipates some of the subject matter of The Birth of a Nation, in simpler terms and with some sympathy to the north. A father bids a sad farewell to his family as he goes off to join the Union forces. Soon after he leaves, a frightened Confederate soldier arrives at the farm and asks for help from the young daughter that he finds there — she protects him from the pursuing Union soldiers but tells him to leave because he is a Confederate

The Adventures of Dollie is a 1908 film directed by D. W. Griffith. It was Griffith’s debut film as a director. A print of the film survives in the Library of Congress film archive. The film tells the story of a young girl who, after being kidnapped by a gypsy pedlar, ends up trapped in a barrel as it floats downriver toward a waterfall.

Another movie about the American civil war by D.W.Griffith.

This movie directed by D.W. Griffith it’s a story about Klu KluK Clan, it was extremely controversial at that time..

Lillian Gish is the star of this drama, about a blockhouse under siege by marauding Indians, until the cavalry arrives at the nick of time. Griffith believed this to be the best film he had done up to that time, and it was one of his most popular two-reelers, as well as one that pointed the way towards the large spic productions like The Birth of a Nation, that would follow.

An exciting western adventure story and drama in one. The orphaned daughter (Blanche Sweet) of a farmer is raised by a step-father who subsequently seeks to marry her. She marries another man instead, and goes west with a wagon train with the man she really loves (Charles H. West) and their infant daughter. The wagon train is attacked by Indians and the family is separated — after the cavalry has routed the Indians, the father searches for his wife and daughter and finds them alive, beneath the bodies of the homesteaders who were protecting them.

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Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Through the Ages is a 1916 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and is considered one of the great masterpieces of the Silent Era. It has also been called “the only film fugue”