America (1924 film)

America
Directed byD. W. Griffith
Written byRobert W. Chambers
Produced byD. W. Griffith
Starring
Cinematography
Edited by
Music by
Production
company
D. W. Griffith Productions
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • February 21, 1924 (1924-02-21)
Running time
141 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Budget$795,000
Box office$1,750,000

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.