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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 Home, Sweet Home perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

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

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

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

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

Dir: D.W. Griffith

A re-edited version of the 'modern' story from Intolerance (1916).

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.

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

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

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

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.

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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

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.