Director
D.W. Griffith
1875LaGrange, Kentucky, USA297 Films
David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance (1916). Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and its immense popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film.
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1.0
Footlight Varieties
1951
6.7
The Struggle
1931
5.4
Abraham Lincoln
1930
4.5
1930 Prelude to "The Birth of a Nation"
1930
4.6
Lady of the Pavements
1929
4.9
The Battle of the Sexes
1928
5.0
Drums of Love
1928
7.0
The Sorrows of Satan
1926
1.0
That Royle Girl
1925
6.1
Sally of the Sawdust
1925
6.2
Isn't Life Wonderful
1924
5.7
America
1924
7.1
The White Rose
1923
5.5
One Exciting Night
1922
6.8
Orphans of the Storm
1921
6.2
Dream Street
1921
7.0
Way Down East
1920
4.2
The Love Flower
1920
1.0
Remodeling Her Husband
1920
5.2
The Idol Dancer
1920
5.9
The Greatest Question
1919
5.8
Scarlet Days
1919
6.9
The Mother and the Law
1919
6.0
The Fall of Babylon
1919
6.9
True Heart Susie
1919
6.9
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
1919
4.8
The Girl Who Stayed at Home
1919
6.9
A Romance of Happy Valley
1919
The Greatest Thing in Life
1918
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
1918
The Great Love
1918
6.0
Hearts of the World
1918
7.1
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
5.9
The Birth of a Nation
1915
5.9
The Avenging Conscience
1914
The Escape
1914
5.0
Home, Sweet Home
1914
5.3
Brute Force
1914
The Battle of the Sexes
1914
6.1
Judith of Bethulia
1914
5.9
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
1913
4.7
The Adopted Brother
1913
Two Men of the Desert
1913
The Reformers
1913
5.6
The Mothering Heart
1913
5.7
Death's Marathon
1913
4.8
A Timely Interception
1913
The Yaqui Cur
1913
5.0
The House of Darkness
1913
5.4
The Wanderer
1913
If We Only Knew
1913
The Lady and the Mouse
1913
5.0
The Little Tease
1913
5.0
The Sheriff's Baby
1913
5.7
Fate
1913
Near To Earth
1913
5.0
The Unwelcome Guest
1913
Broken Ways
1913
Oil and Water
1913
5.7
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
1913
5.0
Three Friends
1913
The Coming of Angelo
1913
A Cry for Help
1912
5.9
The Massacre
1912
5.3
The Burglar’s Dilemma
1912
5.6
The New York Hat
1912
Brutality
1912
The Informer
1912
5.5
My Baby
1912
Gold and Glitter
1912
Heredity
1912
6.2
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912
5.5
The Painted Lady
1912
The One She Loved
1912
In the Aisles of the Wild
1912
The Chief's Blanket
1912
4.5
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
1912
5.9
So Near, Yet So Far
1912
5.5
Friends
1912
Two Daughters of Eve
1912
3.0
Blind Love
1912
5.6
An Unseen Enemy
1912
A Pueblo Legend
1912
4.0
The Inner Circle
1912
4.5
The Narrow Road
1912
4.6
Man's Genesis
1912
4.0
An Indian Summer
1912
4.8
The School Teacher and the Waif
1912
4.7
Lena and the Geese
1912
4.0
A Temporary Truce
1912
Home Folks
1912
5.6
A Beast at Bay
1912
5.7
A Lodging for the Night
1912
5.4
The Old Actor
1912
5.3
The Lesser Evil
1912
5.8
One Is Business, the Other Crime
1912
4.2
The Female of the Species
1912
Fate's Interception
1912
6.3
The Girl and Her Trust
1912
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
1912
The Root of Evil
1912
5.0
Iola's Promise
1912A String of Pearls
1912
6.3
The Sunbeam
1912
4.7
Under Burning Skies
1912
5.6
The Sands of Dee
1912
5.8
The Mender of Nets
1912
5.0
Billy's Stratagem
1912
4.3
The Transformation of Mike
1912
5.5
For His Son
1912
4.8
The Eternal Mother
1912
The Baby and the Stork
1912The Voice of the Child
1911
A Terrible Discovery
1911
3.7
Saved from Himself
1911
4.0
The Failure
1911A Woman Scorned
1911
6.0
The Miser's Heart
1911
4.5
Through Darkening Vales
1911The Trail of Books
1911
4.8
The Battle
1911
The Long Road
1911
5.7
The Adventures of Billy
1911
6.3
The Making of a Man
1911
Her Awakening
1911
4.5
The Revenue Man and His Girl
1911
5.0
The Squaw's Love
1911
4.6
Swords and Hearts
1911
5.7
The Rose of Kentucky
1911
5.1
The Last Drop of Water
1911
5.6
A Country Cupid
1911
4.0
The Indian Brothers
1911
Bobby the Coward
1911
6.3
Fighting Blood
1911
4.0
The Primal Call
1911
5.5
Enoch Arden: Part II
1911
6.0
Enoch Arden
1911
5.5
Enoch Arden: Part I
1911
Madame Rex
1911
6.1
The Lonedale Operator
1911
4.0
His Daughter
1911
The Diamond Star
1911
Fisher Folks
1911
5.5
What Shall We Do with Our Old?
1911
5.0
Heart Beats of Long Ago
1911
5.0
Fate's Turning
1911
3.7
His Trust Fulfilled
1911
4.1
His Trust
1911
4.0
The Italian Barber
1911
4.0
When a Man Loves
1911
4.0
Winning Back His Love
1910
4.3
The Lesson
1910
4.5
The Golden Supper
1910
A Plain Song
1910
The Song of the Wildwood Flute
1910
Sunshine Sue
1910
Simple Charity
1910
4.7
The Fugitive
1910
Waiter No. 5
1910
5.0
That Chink at Golden Gulch
1910
5.2
Rose o' Salem Town
1910
4.5
The Oath and the Man
1910
In Life's Cycle
1910
5.2
The Modern Prodigal
1910
5.0
Wilful Peggy
1910
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
1910
5.0
The Usurer
1910
5.3
The House with Closed Shutters
1910
4.8
An Arcadian Maid
1910
Unexpected Help
1910
4.0
The Call to Arms
1910
5.0
A Flash of Light
1910
4.7
What the Daisy Said
1910
5.0
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
1910
6.2
A Child's Impulse
1910
5.5
In the Border States
1910
A Victim of Jealousy
1910
4.5
A Child of the Ghetto
1910
In the Season of Buds
1910
4.9
Ramona
1910
4.7
Over Silent Paths
1910
The Two Brothers
1910
4.7
Love Among the Roses
1910
6.4
The Unchanging Sea
1910
A Romance of the Western Hills
1910
5.2
As It Is in Life
1910
4.5
Faithful
1910
In Old California
1910The Thread of Destiny
1910
5.0
The Newlyweds
1910
Taming a Husband
1910
The Last Deal
1910
5.0
Her Terrible Ordeal
1910
4.0
The Rocky Road
1910
2.8
The Day After
1909
5.2
To Save Her Soul
1909
5.5
A Trap for Santa Claus
1909
6.2
A Corner in Wheat
1909
5.2
The Redman's View
1909
4.2
Through the Breakers
1909
4.6
The Mountaineer's Honor
1909
4.1
The Light That Came
1909
4.5
The Restoration
1909
4.2
Nursing a Viper
1909
4.1
The Gibson Goddess
1909
5.3
What's Your Hurry?
1909
3.2
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
1909
2.0
His Lost Love
1909
A Change of Heart
1909
4.4
Fools of Fate
1909
5.4
Pippa Passes
1909
4.3
The Awakening
1909
1.5
In Old Kentucky
1909
3.5
The Broken Locket
1909
3.8
Getting Even
1909
4.2
Comata, the Sioux
1909
5.2
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
1909
5.0
The Sealed Room
1909
4.4
The Little Darling
1909
2.5
Pranks
1909
3.0
The Seventh Day
1909
3.5
Oh, Uncle!
1909
3.0
The Indian Runner's Romance
1909
0.5
His Wife's Visitor
1909
5.1
They Would Elope
1909
1.0
Mr. Jones’ Burglar
1909
4.6
The Mended Lute
1909
4.3
A Strange Meeting
1909
4.2
The Slave
1909
3.8
Sweet and Twenty
1909
4.4
The Renunciation
1909
3.0
Tender Hearts
1909
3.7
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
1909
6.2
The Country Doctor
1909
4.0
The Necklace
1909
4.0
The Way of Man
1909
4.2
The Peachbasket Hat
1909
3.0
Her First Biscuits
1909
2.2
The Faded Lilies
1909
5.6
The Son's Return
1909
6.0
The Lonely Villa
1909
4.6
The Violin Maker of Cremona
1909
4.5
What Drink Did
1909
3.9
His Duty
1909
0.5
Eradicating Aunty
1909
3.7
The Cricket on the Hearth
1909
4.2
Two Memories
1909
4.9
Resurrection
1909
The French Duel
1909
The Suicide Club
1909
3.0
Lucky Jim
1909
4.1
Lady Helen's Escapade
1909
4.1
Confidence
1909
5.5
A Drunkard's Reformation
1909
2.5
Jones and His New Neighbors
1909
1.0
The Medicine Bottle
1909
4.7
The Voice of the Violin
1909
3.7
The Lure of the Gown
1909
4.0
The Salvation Army Lass
1909
5.0
The Prussian Spy
1909
3.8
At the Altar
1909
4.4
The Golden Louis
1909
4.3
The Politician's Love Story
19093.8
The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
1909
4.5
The Curtain Pole
1909
5.3
Edgar Allan Poe
1909
3.0
The Girls and Daddy
1909
3.5
The Cord of Life
1909
6.0
Those Awful Hats
1909
3.0
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
1909
4.1
Mr. Jones at the Ball
1908
2.8
An Awful Moment
1908
4.8
Money Mad
1908
3.6
The Song of the Shirt
1908
4.9
The Taming of the Shrew
1908
2.5
After Many Years
1908
3.1
The Call of the Wild
1908
4.1
Romance of a Jewess
1908
5.0
The Planter's Wife
1908
3.0
Ingomar, the Barbarian
1908
3.3
Father Gets in the Game
1908
4.3
The Zulu's Heart
1908
1.5
The Devil
1908
4.0
A Smoked Husband
1908
3.2
Where the Breakers Roar
1908
3.0
The Girl and the Outlaw
1908
2.9
Betrayed by a Handprint
1908
3.3
Balked at the Altar
1908
3.0
For Love of Gold
1908
2.5
The Fatal Hour
1908
1.0
The Greaser's Gauntlet
1908
4.2
A Calamitous Elopement
1908
5.0
Deceived Slumming Party
1908
4.1
The Black Viper
1908
5.2
The Adventures of Dollie
1908
Biograph Shorts Special Edition: 1909-1913
