The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Overview
Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting in an Indian attack on the town.
Broken Blossoms
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The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
Orphans of the Storm
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France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
The Birth of a Nation
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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 congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.