This was the first movie to cost more than $100,000 to make.
- Ben Hur
- Birth of a Nation
- Cleopatra
- The Greatest Story Ever Told
Birth of a Nation. The 1915 film is was also the first twelve-reel movie filmed in America. The film is overtly racist and portrays the KKK as a band of heroes.
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