D.W. Griffith

David Llewellyn Wark Griffith (1875-1948), more well known as D.W. Griffith, was a film-maker, now considered to be the founding father of cinema. He is best known for his innovative films Birth of a Nation and Intolerance. Birth of a Nation was a favorable portrait of the beginning of the Ku Klux Klan, while the latter was a $2.5 million epic combining four separate stories in different time periods about Intolerance.[1]

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1. ↑ Movie Makers: 50 iconic directors from Chaplin to the Coen Brothers, Ian Freer, Quercus Publishing, 2009, pp.6-8