D. W. Griffith Silent Classics: (Orphans of the Storm / Intolerance / Way Down East / Birth of A Nation / Broken Blossoms)

D.W.Griffith was a genius. I didn't watch silent movies when I was younger. I thought they were weird. Boy was I wrong. These people really had to act. They had to tell stories with their eyes and hands. D.W.Griffith's movies were exceptionally great with telling these stories. Orphans of the Storm is with the Lillian and Dorothy Gish leaving their home to go to Paris and getting caught up in the French Revolution. Intolerance is an epic about good fighting evil Way Down East is a great movie about deceit of a young girl in love and the lengths a man went to to have her. This is a great movie with fantastic outdoor scenes which are real and the stars did themselves. For 1920 it's amazing. Broken blossoms is about prejudice. The way Mr. Griffith takes you in and lets you see all these movies at his angle is amazing as well Worth the money.

Very weak transfers. Virtually unwatchable. And music that doesn't follow the action, just a symphony played start to end. Kino Lorber has much much better transfers in bluray.

A great price for a collection of silent film classics from DW Griffith. Staring Lillian Gish, one of my favorite actors of all time. Broken Blossoms was the first Lillian Gish movie I had seen, then Way Down South, Birth of A Nation was the movie that set me to thinking about the civil war, and motivated further research into more of the history surrounding that awful war. Intolerance, was a huge movie. and of course, Orphans of the Storm, is another powerful movie.

I had always wanted these movies and found on Amazon the best price and this collection. If you like Silent movies, then get this to your collection. I love them and the price and DVD was great. Glad I have them.

Excellent set, films are in good condition for being nearly 100 years old, but the score isn't the greatest. I would definitely recommend to a friend.

5 great movies, if you like silent movies. All are the Lillian Gish/D.W.Griffith combination. The movies are all different tales and each has it's own entertainment value. I am now watching Birth of a Nation and it is amazing to think how this and other movies were made given the technology of the time. These are all truely materpiece movies that I am glad I have added to my collection.

Received with dirty fingerprints on them, and very dark. Returned. I believe they were used. Did not get full refund.

An excellent collection of movies.

Great thanks..

Great movies , love the old silent movies

Good

Having seen what can be achieved with silent film on blu ray, Sunrise and City Girl from Murnau and Eureka, I was expecting far more from these DVDs than the quality they offer. The Harold Lloyd boxed set from Studio Canal / Optimum is superb. It may be that good quality prints simply don't exist, I don't know, but of these films the only one that is vaguely watchable is Birth of a Nation. The other four are incredibly poor copies - washed out, soft focussed and scratched to hell and back. Unless you are a silent film fanatic like me who would rather have them like this than not at all then fine go for them but I do live in hope that someone will issue far better copies than these in the not too distant future.