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 itself on the Northern theatre of the war in New York, with romance spliced into the individual movie scenes.

Plot

The story shifts between the viewpoints of Loyalists in Upstate New York, and the Patriots in Massachusetts and Virginia. Much later in the film in New York, a little remembered sub-plot takes place. Captain Walter Butler (Lionel Barrymore), a ruthless Loyalist officer, leads the Iroquois in viciously barraging attacks against American settlers, including the massacre of women and children, who are siding with the Patriots.