![]() But Griffith followed it with the even more ambitious and truly admirable Intolerance (1916), which told four parallel stories of injustice from Babylon through the Crucifixion and the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, to the conviction for murder of an innocent blue-collar worker in 20th-century America. The first great American film, DW Griffith's Birth of a Nation (1915), the most racially prejudiced film produced outside Nazi Germany, made heroes of the Ku Klux Klan for their virtual restoration of slavery in the Deep South after the Civil War. In his The Kleptomaniac (1905), a wealthy woman and a poor working-class mother are arrested for shoplifting, the former treated with respect and acquitted, the latter treated as a criminal and jailed. The American pioneer Edwin S Porter followed his milestone western The Great Train Robbery (1903) with a hard-hitting film about equality before the law. ![]() ![]() Soon after the birth of cinema moviemakers became crusaders for and proponents of human rights. ![]()
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