108 years ago:
The Birth of a Nation (US)
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's co...
1915-02-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/618
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#OTD 1923, Dublin's Freeman's Journal published a photograph of Wallace Reid with the caption: "The popular American cinema artiste, who became a drug fiend. Latest reports from America tell of his gallant struggle to overcome the morphine habit." #EarlyIrishCinema1922 #WallaceReid #SilentFilm