D.W. Griffith

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln’s life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; ...
The King of Kings

The King of Kings

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in ...
One Exciting Night

One Exciting Night

A young orphan girl, courted by an unpleasant older suitor who has a hold over her adoptive mother, falls in love with Fairfax, a young stranger ...
Orphans of the Storm

Orphans of the Storm

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their ...
Way Down East

Way Down East

A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child ...
True Heart Susie

True Heart Susie

Susie secretly loves her neighbor, William Jenkins, but neither, it seems, can confess their feelings for each other.
Hearts of the World

Hearts of the World

A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and ...
The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is ...
Brute Force

Brute Force

1914  

Brute Force

A thin gent in formal wear, amid a club or party, reads a book about primitive man after he’s ignored by a pretty lady. We see the book ...
The Battle of the Sexes

The Battle of the Sexes

Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his wife, son and daughter. He suddenly finds ...
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch

The Battle at Elderbush Gulch

Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting in an Indian attack on the town.
The Enemy’s Baby

The Enemy’s Baby

A feud began with a political argument. Then the justice declared if granddad did not pay up he would attach his household goods. Granddad was ...
His Mother’s Son

His Mother’s Son

The hardship of earning an existence for the family made it impossible for the mother to approve the little pretty things which her daughter ...
The Lady and the Mouse

The Lady and the Mouse

The question is, would the young tramp really have fallen in love with the groceryman’s daughter if he had not caught her in the heart ...
Fate

Fate

1913  

Fate

Sim Sloane and his beloved son were the reprobates of the village, not what would be called lovers of peace and kindness. But granddad dwelt in a ...
Oil and Water

Oil and Water

A stage dancer (Sweet) and a serious-type homebody (Walthall) discover, after marriage, that their individual styles don’t mesh. The movie ...
Three Friends

Three Friends

Each night, after the day’s work at the factory, the three bachelor friends met and declared anew their attachment over a social glass. ...
The God Within

The God Within

The woman of the camp implores her lover to marry her, and he promises to do so, but goes away and does not return. Target of the camp’s ...
The Massacre

The Massacre

1912  

The Massacre

The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
My Hero

My Hero

1912  

My Hero

Stern parents have ever been relentless obstacles in love’s young dream, but it is perhaps quite doubtful if ever love could equal the ...
Heredity

Heredity

1912  

Heredity

Nine-year-old Nedda is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots back to the reign of King Charles I. Alas, the ...
The Musketeers of Pig Alley

The Musketeers of Pig Alley

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.
So Near, Yet So Far

So Near, Yet So Far

It’s love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles— namely shyness, and the temerity of other suitors— place themselves in the way of his ...
An Unseen Enemy

An Unseen Enemy

The physician’s death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor’s small estate ...
A Beast at Bay

A Beast at Bay

A young woman is quite taken with a man she met; in fact, he is her “ideal”. However, after her new suitor refuses to get mixed up in a street ...
The Old Actor

The Old Actor

An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the ...
One Is Business, the Other Crime

One Is Business, the Other Crime

Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation ...