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Dir: D.W. Griffith

In the last days of ancient Babylon, a tomboyish mountain girl fights for her king when the city is attacked.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

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

John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he returns, a wealthy man.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

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

Dir: D.W. Griffith

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Hearts of the World 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

A religious woman seeks to save her people from destruction by seducing and murdering the enemy leader, but her plans get complicated once she falls for him.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his knowledge. Eventually he rises to a position of success and sophistication, and Susie realizes that she has through her own efforts raised him to a level where he is inaccessible to her.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

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

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Judith of Bethulia 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

A romantic bandit named Alvarez, wanted for raids on the mining camps of the California gold rush in 1849, is reformed by the love of a good woman.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.