All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Lillian Gish, ranked

In West Virginia in the 1930s, Reverend Harry Powell is a self-appointed preacher and misogynistic serial killer who travels along the Ohio River, justifying the women he murdered with his switchblade knife after marrying them for their money as doing God’s work. But with the police about to catch him, Harper makes his children John and Pearl promise to never reveal where the money is hidden after hiding it in Pearl’s doll.

It is 1667 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and an uneasy truce exists between local Puritans and their neighbors, the Algonquian. Hester Prynne arrives overseas from England and while she waits for her husband she falls for a young minister. Sentenced to wear a scarlet A for adultery, Prynne is ostracized by the public, and a drummer boy is charged to follow her whenever she comes to town.

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie’s congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

A historical drama based on the events leading up to and after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The movie follows the actions of John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre on April 14th, 1865, as well as the reactions of the government and Lincoln’s family. It covers the background and motives of Booth, his attempts to recruit accomplices, and his plans to kill not only Lincoln but also Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward.