Tag archives for Lillian Gish

How Racist is “Birth of a Nation” (1915) Really?

Birth of a Nation (1915) is no more racist than you are. 110 years after its debut onto the American screen, it seems that everyone apparently knows everything about this film from the title alone, whether they have seen it or not.  Dare to mention the name of it, or the name D.W. Griffith, and […]

V’s Ten for Ten: #7 – “Broken Blossoms” (1919)

★★★★ Let’s talk about racism. I’ve held for years that the most racist regular moviegoing audience isn’t actually anyone in the good ol’ You-Ess of A. It’s China.  The joke of it is that just about everyone knows that as well as I do, but that Americans, and elites in particular, don’t know what to […]