D.W. Griffith
Directing • AGE 73
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 subsequen...
Filmography
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
2024
Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse
Self
2023
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
archive footage
2020
Flashback: The First World War
Self (archive footage)
2014
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Self (archive footage)
2008
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2007
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
Writer
2002
The Tramp and the Dictator
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Self (archive footage)
1998
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
1995
The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation'
Self (Archive footage)
1993
American Experience
Self
1988
General Massacre
Novel
1973
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
1961
Footlight Varieties
Director
1951
San Francisco
Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)
1936
The Struggle
Director
1931
Abraham Lincoln
Director
1930
1930 Prelude to "The Birth of a Nation"
Self
1930
Lady of the Pavements
Director
1929
The Battle of the Sexes
Director
1928
Drums of Love
Director
1928
The King of Kings
Assistant Director
1927
The Sorrows of Satan
Director
1926
That Royle Girl
Director
1925
Sally of the Sawdust
Director
1925
Isn't Life Wonderful
Director
1924
America
Director
1924
The White Rose
Director
1923
One Exciting Night
Director
1922
Orphans of the Storm
Director
1921
Dream Street
Director
1921
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
Himself
1921
Way Down East
Director
1920
The Love Flower
Director
1920
Remodeling Her Husband
Director
1920
The Idol Dancer
Director
1920
The Greatest Question
Director
1919
Scarlet Days
Director
1919
The Mother and the Law
Director
1919
The Fall of Babylon
Writer
1919
True Heart Susie
Director
1919
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Director
1919
The Girl Who Stayed at Home
Producer
1919
A Romance of Happy Valley
Director
1919
The Greatest Thing in Life
Producer
1918
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
Writer
1918
The Hun Within
Writer
1918
The Great Love
Producer
1918
Hearts of the World
Director
1918
Betsy's Burglar
Supervising Producer
1917
A Girl of the Timber Claims
Supervising Producer
1917
The Children of the Feud
Producer
1916
Fifty-Fifty
Producer
1916
The Social Secretary
Producer
1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Scenario Writer
1916
The Marriage of Molly-O
Writer
1916
The Half-Breed
Producer
1916
An Innocent Magdalene
Story
1916
Macbeth
Producer
1916
Susan Rocks the Boat
Producer
1916
Hoodoo Ann
Writer
1916
Daphne and the Pirate
Writer
1916
Betty of Greystone
Story
1916
The Wood Nymph
Story
1916
The Missing Links
Production Supervisor
1916
Double Trouble
Production Supervisor
1915
Old Heidelberg
Supervising Producer
1915
The Lily and the Rose
Writer
1915
The Lamb
Story
1915
Ghosts
Producer
1915
Enoch Arden
Mr. Ray
1915
The Birth of a Nation
Producer
1915
The Avenging Conscience
Director
1914
The Escape
Director
1914
Home, Sweet Home
Director
1914
The Life of General Villa
Supervising Producer
1914
Brute Force
Director
1914
The Battle of the Sexes
Director
1914
Judith of Bethulia
Director
1914
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Director
1913
The Adopted Brother
Director
1913
Two Men of the Desert
Screenplay
1913
The Reformers
Director
1913
The Mothering Heart
Director
1913
Death's Marathon
Director
1913
A Timely Interception
Director
1913
The Yaqui Cur
Director
1913
The House of Darkness
Director
1913
The Wanderer
Director
1913
If We Only Knew
Director
1913
The Lady and the Mouse
Writer
1913
The Little Tease
Writer
1913
The Sheriff's Baby
Director
1913
Fate
Director
1913
Near To Earth
Director
1913
The Unwelcome Guest
Director
1913
Broken Ways
Director
1913
Oil and Water
Director
1913
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
Director
1913
Three Friends
Director
1913
The Coming of Angelo
Director
1913
A Cry for Help
Director
1912
The Massacre
Director
1912
The Burglar’s Dilemma
Director
1912
The New York Hat
Director
1912
Brutality
Writer
1912
The Informer
Director
1912
My Baby
Director
1912
Gold and Glitter
Director
1912
Heredity
Director
1912
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
Writer
1912
The Painted Lady
Director
1912
In the Aisles of the Wild
Director
1912
The Chief's Blanket
Director
1912
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
Director
1912
So Near, Yet So Far
Director
1912
Friends
Director
1912
Two Daughters of Eve
At Stage Door
1912
Blind Love
Director
1912
An Unseen Enemy
Director
1912
A Pueblo Legend
Director
1912
The Inner Circle
Director
1912
The Narrow Road
Director
1912
Man's Genesis
Director
1912
An Indian Summer
Director
1912
The School Teacher and the Waif
Director
1912
Lena and the Geese
Director
1912
A Temporary Truce
Director
1912
Home Folks
Director
1912
A Beast at Bay
Director
1912
A Lodging for the Night
Director
1912
The Old Actor
Director
1912
The Lesser Evil
Director
1912
One Is Business, the Other Crime
Director
1912
The Female of the Species
Director
1912
Fate's Interception
Director
1912
The Girl and Her Trust
Director
1912
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
Producer
1912
The Root of Evil
Director
1912
Iola's Promise
Director
1912
A String of Pearls
Director
1912
The Sunbeam
Director
1912
Under Burning Skies
Director
1912
The Sands of Dee
Director
1912
The Mender of Nets
Director
1912
Billy's Stratagem
Director
1912
The Transformation of Mike
Director
1912
For His Son
Director
1912
The Eternal Mother
Director
1912
The Baby and the Stork
Director
1912
The Voice of the Child
Director
1911
A Terrible Discovery
Director
1911
Saved from Himself
Director
1911
The Failure
Director
1911
A Woman Scorned
Director
1911
The Miser's Heart
Director
1911
Through Darkening Vales
Director
1911
The Trail of Books
Director
1911
The Battle
Director
1911
The Long Road
Director
1911
The Adventures of Billy
On Bench
1911
The Making of a Man
Director
1911
Her Awakening
Director
1911
The Revenue Man and His Girl
Director
1911
The Squaw's Love
Director
1911
Swords and Hearts
Director
1911
The Rose of Kentucky
Director
1911
The Last Drop of Water
Director
1911
A Country Cupid
Director
1911
The Indian Brothers
Director
1911
Bobby the Coward
Director
1911
Fighting Blood
Director
1911
The Primal Call
Director
1911
Enoch Arden: Part II
Director
1911
Enoch Arden
Director
1911
Enoch Arden: Part I
Director
1911
Madame Rex
Director
1911
The Lonedale Operator
Producer
1911
His Daughter
Director
1911
Fisher Folks
Director
1911
What Shall We Do with Our Old?
Director
1911
Fate's Turning
Director
1911
His Trust Fulfilled
Director
1911
His Trust
Director
1911
The Italian Barber
Director
1911
When a Man Loves
Director
1911
The Two Paths
Director
1911
Winning Back His Love
Director
1910
The Golden Supper
Director
1910
A Plain Song
Director
1910
The Song of the Wildwood Flute
Director
1910
Sunshine Sue
Director
1910
Simple Charity
Director
1910
The Fugitive
Director
1910
Waiter No. 5
Director
1910
That Chink at Golden Gulch
Director
1910
A Gold Necklace
Producer
1910
Rose o' Salem Town
Director
1910
The Oath and the Man
Director
1910
In Life's Cycle
Director
1910
The Modern Prodigal
Director
1910
Wilful Peggy
Director
1910
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
Director
1910
When We Were in Our 'Teens
Producer
1910
The Usurer
Director
1910
The House with Closed Shutters
Director
1910
An Arcadian Maid
Director
1910
Unexpected Help
Director
1910
The Call to Arms
Director
1910
A Flash of Light
Director
1910
What the Daisy Said
Director
1910
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Director
1910
A Child's Impulse
Director
1910
May and December
Producer
1910
In the Border States
Director
1910
A Victim of Jealousy
Director
1910
A Child of the Ghetto
Director
1910
Ramona
Director
1910
Over Silent Paths
Director
1910
The Two Brothers
Director
1910
Love Among the Roses
Director
1910
The Unchanging Sea
Director
1910
The Tenderfoot's Triumph
Producer
1910
A Romance of the Western Hills
Director
1910
As It Is in Life
Director
1910
Faithful
Director
1910
In Old California
Director
1910
The Thread of Destiny
Story
1910
The Newlyweds
Director
1910
Thou Shalt Not
Director
1910
Taming a Husband
Director
1910
All on Account of the Milk
Producer
1910
Her Terrible Ordeal
Director
1910
The Rocky Road
Director
1910
The Day After
Director
1909
To Save Her Soul
Director
1909
A Trap for Santa Claus
Director
1909
A Corner in Wheat
Director
1909
The Redman's View
Director
1909
Through the Breakers
Director
1909
The Mountaineer's Honor
Director
1909
The Light That Came
Director
1909
The Restoration
Director
1909
Nursing a Viper
Director
1909
The Gibson Goddess
Director
1909
What's Your Hurry?
Director
1909
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
Writer
1909
His Lost Love
Director
1909
A Change of Heart
Director
1909
Fools of Fate
Director
1909
Pippa Passes
Director
1909
The Awakening
Director
1909
In Old Kentucky
Director
1909
The Broken Locket
Writer
1909
Getting Even
Director
1909
Comata, the Sioux
Director
1909
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
1909
The Sealed Room
Director
1909
The Little Darling
Director
1909
Pranks
Director
1909
The Seventh Day
Director
1909
Oh, Uncle!
Director
1909
The Indian Runner's Romance
Director
1909
His Wife's Visitor
Director
1909
They Would Elope
Director
1909
Mr. Jones’ Burglar
Director
1909
The Mended Lute
Director
1909
A Strange Meeting
Director
1909
The Slave
Director
1909
Sweet and Twenty
Director
1909
The Renunciation
Director
1909
Tender Hearts
Director
1909
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
Director
1909
The Country Doctor
Director
1909
The Necklace
Director
1909
The Way of Man
Director
1909
The Peachbasket Hat
Director
1909
Her First Biscuits
Director
1909
The Faded Lilies
Director
1909
The Son's Return
Screenplay
1909
The Lonely Villa
Director
1909
The Violin Maker of Cremona
Director
1909
What Drink Did
Writer
1909
His Duty
Director
1909
Eradicating Aunty
Director
1909
The Cricket on the Hearth
Director
1909
Two Memories
Director
1909
Resurrection
Director
1909
The French Duel
Director
1909
The Suicide Club
Director
1909
Lucky Jim
Director
1909
Lady Helen's Escapade
Director
1909
Confidence
Writer
1909
A Drunkard's Reformation
Writer
1909
Jones and His New Neighbors
Director
1909
The Medicine Bottle
Writer
1909
The Voice of the Violin
Director
1909
The Lure of the Gown
Writer
1909
The Salvation Army Lass
Director
1909
The Prussian Spy
Director
1909
At the Altar
1909
The Golden Louis
Director
1909
The Politician's Love Story
Man - First Couple
1909
The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
Director
1909
The Curtain Pole
Writer
1909
Edgar Allan Poe
Director
1909
The Girls and Daddy
At Black & Tan Ball
1909
The Cord of Life
Director
1909
Those Awful Hats
Director
1909
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Writer
1909
Mr. Jones at the Ball
Writer
1908
An Awful Moment
Writer
1908
Money Mad
Director
1908
The Song of the Shirt
Director
1908
The Taming of the Shrew
Director
1908
The Call of the Wild
Director
1908
Romance of a Jewess
Director
1908
The Planter's Wife
Director
1908
Ingomar, the Barbarian
Director
1908
Father Gets in the Game
Director
1908
The Zulu's Heart
Director
1908
The Devil
Director
1908
A Smoked Husband
Director
1908
Where the Breakers Roar
Director
1908
The Girl and the Outlaw
Director
1908
Betrayed by a Handprint
Director
1908
Balked at the Altar
1908
For Love of Gold
Director
1908
The Fatal Hour
Policeman
1908
The Greaser's Gauntlet
Director
1908
A Calamitous Elopement
Policeman
1908
Deceived Slumming Party
Reginald O.C. Wittington
1908
The Black Viper
Rescuer
1908
The Adventures of Dollie
Director
1908
Over the Hills to the Poor House
Writer
1908
The Invisible Fluid
Mailman
1908
Mixed Babies
Writer
1908
When Knights Were Bold
1908
The Sculptor's Nightmare
1908
The Music Master
1908
Her First Adventure
Father
1908
Cupid’s Pranks
Extra at ball
1908
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
Father
1908
Falsely Accused!
Cop in Court
1908
Biograph Shorts Special Edition: 1909-1913
Director
A Griffith Biograph Collection Featuring Mary Pickford: Volume One
Director