I woke up in the middle of the night this morning to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, one of the overnight silent-movie treats on Turner Classic Movies. I switched channels before the racist second half of the movie, which I show in film class, but that’s plenty, thanks. Tonight in prime time, TCM presents another early Griffith cinematic epic that’s a lot more palatable: a movie that actually decries bigotry rather than champions it. Lillian Gish stars in this multi-story 1916 drama, which occupies all of prime time.