Includes:
The Birth of a Nation:
7 Civil War shorts: In the Border States, The House with Closed Shutters, The Fugitive, His Trust, His Trust Fulfilled, Swords and Hearts, The Battle
"The Making of The Birth of a Nation" (1992)
Filmed prologue to The Birth of a Nation (1930)
New York vs. The Birth of a Nation: an archive of information documenting the battles over the films 1922 re-release
Excerpts from 1915 souvenir book and several original program
Intolerance:
Filmed introduction by Orson Welles
Excerpts from Cabiria (1914) and The Last Days of Pompeii (1914)
Text excerpts from "Away with Meddlers: A Declaration of Independence" and "The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America," two pamphlets published by D.W. Griffith at the time of Intolerance's release
Excerpt of The Fall of Babylon (1916), which offers an alternate (happy) ending to the Babylonian sequence
About the score
Broken Blossoms:
Filmed introduction of Lillian Gish including excerpts from Gish's film "Romola" (1925)
The complete text of Thomas Burke's original story
A recording of the 1919 song "Broken Blossoms"
D.W. Griffith on leading ladies
About the score
Orphans of the Storm:
Filmed introduction by Orson Welles
Footage taken at D.W. Griffith's funeral
Radio eulogy for Griffith by Erich von Stroheim
"Rescued from the Eagle's Nest" (1908), a rare film starring D.W. Griffith the Actor
"The Story of David Wark Griffith," a biography published in Photoplay magazine in 1916
Biograph Shorts 1909-1913: 23 complete films
