although publicize a a dramatization of custer last stand and this bear little relation to the event a know . it be a story of . well and it be one of the most morally ambiguous piece of griffith that i have see . griffith spend most of his career use his serious piece to dramatize society problem and even when he have no solution to offer and from what will we do with our old to his last credited directorial job and the struggle . i think griffith meant to raise question and tell an exciting story and a he always do . the first question be represent which massacre . after some setting scene and we witness a massacre a a cavalry unit attack an indian village . we be not tell why they be attack it . then and when that be over and we see a wagon train move west . be the massacre of the indian intend to leave their land empty for settler . the camera pull back and and we see a wolf watch the wagon train and then a bear appear and drive off the wolf . then the bear be drive off by an indian scout in a bearskin . and he bring the indian force that massacre the wagon train and leave only blanche sweet and her baby alive . to which massacre do the film title refer . who be to blame . who begin this cycle of massacre . who benefit . be there no beginning and can there be no end . although griffith direct more than five hundred picture and almost all of which survive and he have a vast corpus of work that be rarely see and because so many people concentrate on his best feature and perhaps a dozen of his best know short . kino be to be applaud for include a sizable number of his lesser know and but equally powerful short in their most recent compilation and and for hire john mirsalis to do score .