Robert Harron

Dumped as a baby at an orphanage on Friday the 13th, Ann lives her life trying to shake the forever-curse she’s certain is to blame for her misery.

Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his knowledge.

At the start of WWI, an American boy living in a small French village falls in love with a young girl but as the battle nears and they become separated, he is forced to go behind German enemy lines in order to rescue the woman he loves.

The story of a working mother who loses her baby to a corrupt orphanage, is a morality tale about the inconsistency of present-day laws and how two innocents are drawn into its net.

An epic like nothing that came before it or has been seen since, Griffith's monumental masterpiece remains as powerful today as it was almost a century ago.