| − | '''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 Klu Klux Klan, while the latter was a $2.5 million epic combining four separate stories in different time periods about Intolerance. <ref> Movie Makers: 50 iconic directors from Chaplin to the Coen Brothers, Ian Freer, Quercus Publishing, 2009, pp.6-8 </ref> | + | '''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 Klu Klux Klan, while the latter was a $2.5 million epic combining four separate stories in different time periods about Intolerance. <ref> Movie Makers: 50 iconic directors from Chaplin to the Coen Brothers, Ian Freer, Quercus Publishing, 2009, pp.6-8 </ref> |