Poetry ensemble The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron were the earliest illustrations of Political Rap in 1970, when they unveiled their 1st recordings. D.W. Griffiths' groundbreaking epic, The Birth of a Nation, the popular 1920 film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the Robert Wiene epic from the similar year, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, are some notable illustrations of tinted silent movies.