The Recommended Vault Deeply Connected to Drums of Love: Cult Guide

Dir: D.W. Griffith

Four historical tales depict the ongoing human struggle against prejudice and inhumanity.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Greatest Thing in Life perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Jeannette Peret, daughter of a cigar-store owner, leaves her Greenwich Village home for France in hopes of finding there the love which eludes her at home. She becomes enamored of le Bebe, a giant of a vegetable peddler, but his unsophisticated ways disillusion her. Edward Livingston, a wealthy young man from home who had spurned Jeannette, now turns up and realizes the error of his ways. But he, too, has a great flaw, and only the outbreak of war , ironically, is able to lead Jeannette to a peaceful conclusion to her quest.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

Story of two brothers who go off to France to fight in World War I, the women who love them and an American expatriate living in France who rallies behind his former country.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Girl Who Stayed at Home perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

An orphan girl is given shelter by a farm family, but soon finds herself in the clutches of a murderous farmer and his wife.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Escape perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Prevented from dating his sweetheart by his uncle, a young man turns his thoughts to murder.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

John Howard Payne at his most miserable point in life, writes a song which becomes popular and inspires other people at some point in their lives.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Greatest Question perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

An idealistic young American during World War I, itching to fight the Germans and not wanting to wait until the U. S. joined the war, journeys to Canada and enlists in the British army. He is sent for training to England, and then to the front in France, where he is wounded. Returned back to England to recuperate from his wounds, he falls in love with the daughter of an Australian minister.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.