America (1924)
- Directed by
- D. W. Griffith
- Genre
- drama film, silent film, war film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h 21m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.9 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This silent film tells a love story set during the American Revolutionary War in New York. A young couple from opposing sides falls in love amid the battles and hardships of the conflict.
historicalromanticpatrioticepicsentimentalslow-pacedmelodramaticold-fashioned
What happens
America, also called Love and Sacrifice, is a 1924 American silent historical war romance film. It describes the heroic story of the events during the American Revolutionary War, in which filmmaker D. W. Griffith created a film adaptation of Robert W. Chambers' 1905 novel The Reckoning. The plot mainly centers on the Northern theatre of the war in New York, with romance spliced into individual movie scenes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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