Great film -- bad history

Rating: 8/10 (10 December 2002)

Like JFK, this is a GREAT film, but TERRIBLE history. Griffith's overt racism -- not unusual in its day -- overwhelms the technological masterpiece it must be recognized as, but like Reni Reifenstahl's Triumph des Willens (1934), it *must* be seen to complete any student's education in film.