D.W. Griffith — born on Jan. 22, 1875, near Curry’s Fork in Oldham County to Mary Oglesby Griffith and Jacob Griffith — has been called the “Father of Modern Film,” producing 400 movies ...

A documentary titled “D.W. Griffith: Father of Film” (1993), assembled by film historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, traces Griffith’s career and includes interviews with Gish ...

1948 D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, released in 1915, was a gigantic blockbuster, one of the first of its kind, and even then protests at the blatant racism in the film dogged the film’s ...

The embarrassment is DW Griffith. There is an embarrassment ... and a man whose own life would make a great movie. So adopt a new principle, if you will: the father of cinema ...

The Soviet Union says it has found a cache of forgotten, historic films in a cellar in the Ukranian city of Kharkov, including one by American filmmaker D.W. Griffith. ”Although the picture has ...