Thomas F. Dixon, Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was an American Baptist minister, playwright, lecturer, North Carolina state legislator, lawyer, and author, perhaps best known for writing The Clansman — which was to become the inspiration for D. W. Griffith's film, The Birth of a Nation (1915).
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15 October 1937
Believing they can make a ton of money, a gang of opportunists uses the country's racial and ethnic tensions to start a Ku Klux Klan-type organization.
22 January 1925
Loring, an author, in getting material for a book, goes to a gambling den. He sees Wilbur, who acts strangely.
08 March 1915
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine.
27 June 1926
The story is motivated by a long-standing feud, which comes to a head when each of the warring families tries to adopt an orphan girl who is about to receive a huge inheritance.
22 February 1925
Story of a cowboy who saves an old cobbler from being abused by a nasty banker. The banker does not take kindly to Hartwell's interfering and orders his henchman to kill the upstart.
06 November 1924
After arriving unexpectedly at his country home, Dan Maitland discovers a young woman attempting to open his safe.
05 December 1912
Short silent crime film about a man who thrown out by his wife. He joins bandits who want to derail an express train.
06 June 1916
A sequel to DW Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, by the same author, and now lost. It is considered the first film sequel ever made and recounts a fictional invasion of America by a united army from Europe.
19 April 1919
Society melodrama about a wealthy father who purchases an island to prove to his son that communism won't work.
28 September 1924
After being released from imprisonment for a crime committed by her sister, Violet is forced to become a woman of easy virtue, and on an excursion to a South Sea isle she meets Luther Smith, a sailor seeking vengeance for the death of his sister.
30 January 1921
In her sixteenth year, Wing Toy learns how as an infant she was brought to Wong, a Chinese laundryman, by a former convict known as The Mole and that her father was Chinese and her mother American.
15 August 1924
Jim Owens (Robert Frazer), a reformed thief and successful inventor, meets quiet, meek and refined Mary Adams (Elaine Hammerstein) at a jazz party.
01 October 1918
Denounced for preaching socialism Reverend Frank Gordon founds his own "Temple of Man." financed by Kate Ransom, the woman Gordon has fallen in with love and entered into a common-law agreement with after divorcing his wife.
26 November 1922
Though loved by many in her Norwegian village home, Thelma herself does not know love until she meets Sir Phillip Errington.
16 October 1921
A doctor dreams that he has shot and killed a local gambler. Awakened by a sudden noise, he discovers that the gambler is lying on his living-room floor, shot to death.
