D.W. Griffith
Directing
Born January 22, 1875 in LaGrange, Kentucky, USA
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. It also proved extremely controversial at the time and ever since for its negative depiction of Black Americans and their supporters, and its positive portrayal of slavery and the Ku Klux Klan. Griffith responded to his critics with his next film, Intolerance, intended to show the dangers of prejudiced thought and behavior. The film was not the financial success that its predecessor had been, but was received warmly by critics. Several of his later films were also successful, but high production, promotional, and roadshow costs often made his ventures commercial failures. Even so, he is generally considered one of the most important figures of early cinema.
Filmography
Biograph Shorts Special Edition: 1909-1913
A Griffith Biograph Collection Featuring Mary Pickford: Volume One
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse
Self
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
archive footage
Flashback: The First World War
Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
The Tramp and the Dictator
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Self (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation'
Self (Archive footage)
American Experience
Self
General Massacre
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
Footlight Varieties
San Francisco
Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)
The Struggle
Abraham Lincoln
1930 Prelude to "The Birth of a Nation"
Self
Lady of the Pavements
The Battle of the Sexes
Drums of Love
The King of Kings
The Sorrows of Satan
That Royle Girl
Sally of the Sawdust
Isn't Life Wonderful
America
The White Rose
One Exciting Night
Orphans of the Storm
Dream Street
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
Himself
Way Down East
The Love Flower
Remodeling Her Husband
The Idol Dancer
The Greatest Question
Scarlet Days
The Mother and the Law
The Fall of Babylon
True Heart Susie
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
The Girl Who Stayed at Home
A Romance of Happy Valley
The Greatest Thing in Life
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
The Hun Within
The Great Love
Hearts of the World
Betsy's Burglar
A Girl of the Timber Claims
The Children of the Feud
Fifty-Fifty
The Social Secretary
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Marriage of Molly-O
The Half-Breed
An Innocent Magdalene
Macbeth
Susan Rocks the Boat
Hoodoo Ann
Daphne and the Pirate
Betty of Greystone
The Wood Nymph
The Missing Links
Double Trouble
Old Heidelberg
The Lily and the Rose
The Lamb
Ghosts
Enoch Arden
Mr. Ray
The Birth of a Nation
The Avenging Conscience
The Escape
Home, Sweet Home
The Life of General Villa
Brute Force
The Battle of the Sexes
Judith of Bethulia
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
The Adopted Brother
Two Men of the Desert
The Reformers
The Mothering Heart
Death's Marathon
A Timely Interception
The Yaqui Cur
The House of Darkness
The Wanderer
If We Only Knew
The Lady and the Mouse
The Little Tease
The Sheriff's Baby
Fate
Near To Earth
The Unwelcome Guest
Broken Ways
Oil and Water
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
Three Friends
The Coming of Angelo
A Cry for Help
The Massacre
The Burglar’s Dilemma
The New York Hat
Brutality
The Informer
My Baby
Gold and Glitter
Heredity
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
The Painted Lady
In the Aisles of the Wild
The Chief's Blanket
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
So Near, Yet So Far
Friends
Two Daughters of Eve
At Stage Door
Blind Love
An Unseen Enemy
A Pueblo Legend
The Inner Circle
The Narrow Road
Man's Genesis
An Indian Summer
The School Teacher and the Waif
Lena and the Geese
A Temporary Truce
Home Folks
A Beast at Bay
A Lodging for the Night
The Old Actor
The Lesser Evil
One Is Business, the Other Crime
The Female of the Species
Fate's Interception
The Girl and Her Trust
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
The Root of Evil
Iola's Promise
A String of Pearls
The Sunbeam
Under Burning Skies
The Sands of Dee
The Mender of Nets
Billy's Stratagem
The Transformation of Mike
For His Son
The Eternal Mother
The Baby and the Stork
The Voice of the Child
A Terrible Discovery
Saved from Himself
The Failure
A Woman Scorned
The Miser's Heart
Through Darkening Vales
The Trail of Books
The Battle
The Long Road
The Adventures of Billy
On Bench
The Making of a Man
Her Awakening
The Revenue Man and His Girl
The Squaw's Love
Swords and Hearts
The Rose of Kentucky
The Last Drop of Water
A Country Cupid
The Indian Brothers
Bobby the Coward
Fighting Blood
The Primal Call
Enoch Arden: Part II
Enoch Arden
Enoch Arden: Part I
Madame Rex
The Lonedale Operator
His Daughter
Fisher Folks
What Shall We Do with Our Old?
Fate's Turning
His Trust Fulfilled
His Trust
The Italian Barber
When a Man Loves
The Two Paths
Winning Back His Love
The Golden Supper
A Plain Song
The Song of the Wildwood Flute
Sunshine Sue
Simple Charity
The Fugitive
Waiter No. 5
That Chink at Golden Gulch
A Gold Necklace
Rose o' Salem Town
The Oath and the Man
In Life's Cycle
The Modern Prodigal
Wilful Peggy
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
When We Were in Our 'Teens
The Usurer
The House with Closed Shutters
An Arcadian Maid
Unexpected Help
The Call to Arms
A Flash of Light
What the Daisy Said
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
A Child's Impulse
May and December
In the Border States
A Victim of Jealousy
A Child of the Ghetto
Ramona
Over Silent Paths
The Two Brothers
Love Among the Roses
The Unchanging Sea
The Tenderfoot's Triumph
A Romance of the Western Hills
As It Is in Life
Faithful
In Old California
The Thread of Destiny
The Newlyweds
Thou Shalt Not
Taming a Husband
All on Account of the Milk
Her Terrible Ordeal
The Rocky Road
The Day After
To Save Her Soul
A Trap for Santa Claus
A Corner in Wheat
The Redman's View
Through the Breakers
The Mountaineer's Honor
The Light That Came
The Restoration
Nursing a Viper
The Gibson Goddess
What's Your Hurry?
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
His Lost Love
A Change of Heart
Fools of Fate
Pippa Passes
The Awakening
In Old Kentucky
The Broken Locket
Getting Even
Comata, the Sioux
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
The Sealed Room
The Little Darling
Pranks
Oh, Uncle!
The Seventh Day
The Indian Runner's Romance
His Wife's Visitor
They Would Elope
Mr. Jones’ Burglar
The Mended Lute
A Strange Meeting
The Slave
Sweet and Twenty
The Renunciation
Tender Hearts
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
The Country Doctor
The Necklace
The Way of Man
The Peachbasket Hat
Her First Biscuits
The Faded Lilies
The Son's Return
The Lonely Villa
The Violin Maker of Cremona
What Drink Did
His Duty
Eradicating Aunty
The Cricket on the Hearth
Two Memories
Resurrection
The French Duel
The Suicide Club
Lucky Jim
Lady Helen's Escapade
Confidence
A Drunkard's Reformation
Jones and His New Neighbors
The Medicine Bottle
The Voice of the Violin
The Lure of the Gown
The Salvation Army Lass
The Prussian Spy
At the Altar
The Golden Louis
The Politician's Love Story
Man - First Couple
The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
The Curtain Pole
Edgar Allan Poe
The Girls and Daddy
At Black & Tan Ball
The Cord of Life
Those Awful Hats
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Mr. Jones at the Ball
An Awful Moment
Money Mad
The Song of the Shirt
The Taming of the Shrew
The Call of the Wild
Romance of a Jewess
The Planter's Wife
Ingomar, the Barbarian
Father Gets in the Game
The Zulu's Heart
The Devil
A Smoked Husband
Where the Breakers Roar
The Girl and the Outlaw
Betrayed by a Handprint
Balked at the Altar
For Love of Gold
The Fatal Hour
Policeman
The Greaser's Gauntlet
A Calamitous Elopement
Policeman
Deceived Slumming Party
Reginald O.C. Wittington
The Black Viper
Rescuer
The Adventures of Dollie
Over the Hills to the Poor House
The Invisible Fluid
Mailman
Mixed Babies
When Knights Were Bold
The Sculptor's Nightmare
The Music Master
Her First Adventure
Father
Cupid’s Pranks
Extra at ball
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
Father
Falsely Accused!
Cop in Court