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Rated NR · 3 hr 7 min · 2015 Drama, War, Western The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and divisiveness since its first release. The film tells the story of the Civil War and its aftermath, as seen through the eyes of two families. The Stonemans hail from the North, the Camerons from the South. When war breaks out, the Stonemans cast their lot with the Union, while the Camerons are loyal to Dixie. After the war, Ben Cameron (Henry B. Walthall), distressed that his beloved south is now under th...

DW Griffith at The White House in 1921 Credit: Bettmann This year, a slew of major silent films celebrate their centenaries – reflecting, in 1921, a vigorous torrent of new productions coming through after the economic drain of the Spanish Flu and First World War. Chaplin’s evergreen The Kid was among these, as were the hit war epic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and The Sheik, which made Rudolph Valentino an international sex symbol. What none of these films boasted, though, was an experiment with sound, six years before The Jazz Singer changed the medium for good. The man to try it...

Owen Marsh The son of an MGM cinematographer, he also worked on 'Love Me Tender,' 'The Greatest Story Ever Told,' 'The Towering Inferno' and 'The Brady Bunch.' Owen Marsh, who served as a camera operator for such classic films as  Ben-Hur, The Greatest Story Ever Told and for television shows from The Brady Bunch to Murder, She Wrote, has died. He was 90. Marsh died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Portland, Oregon, his daughter, Cher Levendosky, told The Hollywood Reporter. Marsh was among the 13 founders who established what was then known as the Society of Operating Cameramen (...