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The Broken Doll

1910 · 15 min
4.0 / 10 · TMDB

An American Indian child, maltreated by her mother and other tribespeople, accompanies her family to a nearby town to buy supplies. There, local white settlers — a couple and their young daughter — befriend the child and give her a doll, her first and only toy. Meanwhile, another tribesman is wantonly killed by a settler. Enraged, the Indians plan revenge and organize a war-party to attack the town. The Indians also take from the child the doll she was given and smash it. The child mourns her broken doll, and buries it with traditional tribal rites. Alarmed that her new friends will be harmed when the town is attacked, the child rushes ahead of the war-party to give warning of the imminent attack. In the raid the child is struck by a bullet, and makes her painful way to her doll’s burial site. Alone, she dies.

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📋 Film Details

Year 1910
Director D.W. Griffith
Runtime 15 min.
Rating TMDB: 4.0/10 (1 votes)

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The film constructs a tragic contrast between the brutality of its world and the fragility of a child's spirit, using the doll as a symbol of lost innocence and a bridge between cultures.

What lingers after viewing is the devastating inevitability of violence in a landscape where even compassion is doomed. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: D.W. Griffith

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In a quiet room, with minimal distraction, to absorb the weight of its silent storytelling.

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