Movies: D.W. Griffith

  • 1916
    The Half-Breed

    The Half-Breed (1916)

    The Half-Breed

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    In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama written by Anita Loos and directed with flair by Allan Dwan. Fairbanks stars as Lo Dorman, who has bee...

    The Half-Breed
  • 1915
    The Birth of a Nation

    The Birth of a Nation (1915)

    The Birth of a Nation

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    Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Ca...

    The Birth of a Nation
  • 1930
    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln (1930)

    Abraham Lincoln

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    A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the electio...

    Abraham Lincoln
  • 1927
    The King of Kings

    The King of Kings (1927)

    The King of Kings

    6.51927HD

    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 Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text...

    The King of Kings
  • 1916
    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

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    The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history....

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
  • 1919
    Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

    Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)

    Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

    6.81919HD

    The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live....

    Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
  • 1914
    The Avenging Conscience

    The Avenging Conscience (1914)

    The Avenging Conscience

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    Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Becoming convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body. Howe...

    The Avenging Conscience
  • 1921
    Orphans of the Storm

    Orphans of the Storm (1921)

    Orphans of the Storm

    6.81921HD

    France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate w...

    Orphans of the Storm
  • 1913
    Broken Ways

    Broken Ways (1913)

    Broken Ways

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    In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After separating from her husband, whom she has discovered to be a brute and a criminal, she is about to give herself to another man, believing her husband de...

    Broken Ways
  • 1920
    Way Down East

    Way Down East (1920)

    Way Down East

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    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 out of wedlock....

    Way Down East
  • 1909
    To Save Her Soul

    To Save Her Soul (1909)

    To Save Her Soul

    5.21909HD

    Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer and goes to the city. Later the curate goes to hear Agnes perf...

    To Save Her Soul
  • 1924
    Isn't Life Wonderful

    Isn't Life Wonderful (1924)

    Isn't Life Wonderful

    6.21924HD

    A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the Great Inflation. Inga is a Polish war orphan who has only accumulated a small amount of money from t...

    Isn't Life Wonderful
  • 1925
    Sally of the Sawdust

    Sally of the Sawdust (1925)

    Sally of the Sawdust

    6.11925HD

    Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Professor McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of Judge Foster's friend, falls in love. When Sally is arre...

    Sally of the Sawdust
  • 1913
    If We Only Knew

    If We Only Knew (1913)

    If We Only Knew

    01913HD

    A careless nurse girl allowing the child to wander away, made the mother realize the poignancy of the little verse: "If we knew the baby's fingers / Pressed against the window pane / Would be cold and stiff tomorrow, / Never trouble us again, / Would...

    If We Only Knew
  • 1913
    Death's Marathon

    Death's Marathon (1913)

    Death's Marathon

    5.71913HD

    Two business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the irresponsible partner, much to her later regret. He squanders money on gambling, as his interest in her gradually wanes. One day after losing the company money in a...

    Death's Marathon
  • 1909
    In Old Kentucky

    In Old Kentucky (1909)

    In Old Kentucky

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    Brothers George and Robert enlist on opposite sides in the Civil War. Robert is captured as a spy for the South, but escapes and hides in his parents' house. George leads the search party, but doesn't reveal his brother's hiding place, and Robert esc...

    In Old Kentucky
  • 1913
    Two Men of the Desert

    Two Men of the Desert (1913)

    Two Men of the Desert

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    The young authoress had come to the edge of the desert for her mother's sake. There she met the two young prospectors and a romance began. But the men were about to go across the desert, where they had heard rumors of gold. They decided to play squar...

    Two Men of the Desert
  • 1913
    Love in an Apartment Hotel

    Love in an Apartment Hotel (1913)

    Love in an Apartment Hotel

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    In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's apartment. He was her ideal, and the all-adoring bell-boy was firmly but gently given to understand that maids who read "Heliotrope Glendening's Advic...

    Love in an Apartment Hotel
  • 1909
    Mr. Jones Has a Card Party

    Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909)

    Mr. Jones Has a Card Party

    31909HD

    Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance League. But Oh! the ordeal, for such it was, was telling on him, and his pent-up spirits were threatening...

    Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
  • 1910
    In the Border States

    In the Border States (1910)

    In the Border States

    5.51910HD

    During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. After he leaves, Confederate troops forage on his property, where a soldier encounters one of his daughters. The father himself is wounded on a hazardous mission a...

    In the Border States