The Film Canon: The General (1926)

Long before Buster Keaton’s train engineer sat on his beloved train’s pistons as they rotated up and down,the locomotive had already graced moving images—most famously in 1903’s fictional The Great Train Robbery and, even earlier, in the Lumière Brothers very…

History According to Hollywood: The Civil War – Part 1

“But as Pontius Pilate said, what is the truth?” – D.W Griffith  In a bout of historical irony, the first Union troops to enter Richmond at end of the Civil War were African-American. The Confederacy Capital, bombarded and shelled, stood…