Drama · History · War
American
1915 · Directed by D.W. Griffith · 195 min
Two families, one Northern and one Southern, are bound by friendship before the American Civil War and pulled apart by it. The film follows them through the war and into Reconstruction. It is a landmark of film technique, built on a racist view of history that viewers need to understand going in.
Why it matters in cinema history
A founding text of classical Hollywood narrative and a defining film of the silent feature era, as important for its technical influence as for the lasting debate over its ideology.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a landmark of film grammar, while staying alert to how every technical choice serves a particular, deeply biased point of view.
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