D. W. Griffith filmography

These are the films directed by the pioneering American filmmaker D. W. Griffith (1875–1948). According to IMDb, he directed 518 films between 1908 and 1931.

1908

* ''The Adventures of Dollie''
* ''The Fight for Freedom'' (director disputed)
* ''The Tavern Keeper's Daughter''
* ''The Black Viper''
* '' The Red Man and the Child''
* '' Deceived Slumming Party''
* '' The Bandit's Waterloo''
* '' A Calamitous Elopement''
* ''The Greaser's Gauntlet''
* '' The Man and the Woman''
* '' The Fatal Hour''
* '' For Love of Gold''
* '' Balked at the Altar''
* ''For a Wife's Honor''
* '' Betrayed by a Handprint''
* ''Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court''
* ''The Girl and the Outlaw''
* ''Behind the Scenes''
* ''The Red Girl''
* '' The Heart of O'Yama''
* '' Where the Breakers Roar''
* '' A Smoked Husband''
* '' The Stolen Jewels''
* ''The Devil''
* ''The Zulu's Heart''
* ''Father Gets in the Game''
* '' Ingomar, the Barbarian''
* '' The Vaquero's Vow''
* '' The Planter's Wife''
* ''Romance of a Jewess''
* ''The Call of the Wild''
* '' Concealing a Burglar''
* '' After Many Years''
* '' The Pirate's Gold''
* ''The Taming of the Shrew''
* '' The Guerrilla''
* ''The Song of the Shirt''
* '' The Ingrate''
* '' A Woman's Way''
* ''The Clubman and the Tramp''
* '' Money Mad''
* ''The Valet's Wife''
* '' The Feud and the Turkey''
* '' The Reckoning''
* '' The Test of Friendship''
* '' An Awful Moment''
* '' The Christmas Burglars''
* '' Mr. Jones at the Ball''
* '' The Helping Hand''

1909

* '' One Touch of Nature''
* ''The Maniac Cook''
* '' Mrs. Jones Entertains''
* ''The Honor of Thieves''
* ''Love Finds a Way''
* '' The Sacrifice''
* ''A Rural Elopement''
* ''Those Boys!''
* '' The Criminal Hypnotist''
* ''The Fascinating Mrs. Francis''
* ''Mr. Jones Has a Card Party''
* ''Those Awful Hats''
* ''The Welcome Burglar''
* '' The Cord of Life''
* '' The Girls and Daddy''
* ''The Brahma Diamond''
* '' Edgar Allen Poe''
* ''A Wreath in Time''
* ''Tragic Love''
* ''The Curtain Pole''
* '' His Ward's Love''
* '' The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals''
* ''The Hindoo Dagger''
* '' The Politician's Love Story''
* ''The Golden Louis''
* ''At the Altar''
* ''The Prussian Spy''
* '' His Wife's Mother''
* ''A Fool's Revenge''
* ''The Wooden Leg''
* ''The Roue's Heart''
* ''The Salvation Army Lass''
* ''The Lure of the Gown''
* '' I Did It''
* '' The Voice of the Violin''
* '' The Deception''
* ''And a Little Child Shall Lead Them''
* ''A Burglar's Mistake''
* '' The Medicine Bottle''
* '' Jones and His New Neighbors''
* ''A Drunkard's Reformation''
* ''Trying to Get Arrested''
* ''The Road to the Heart''
* ''A Rude Hostess''
* ''Schneider's Anti-Noise Crusade''
* '' The Winning Coat''
* ''A Sound Sleeper''
* ''Confidence''
* '' A Troublesome Satchel''
* ''Lady Helen's Escapade''
* '' The Drive for a Life''
* ''Twin Brothers''
* ''Lucky Jim''
* '' Tis an Ill Wind That Blows No Good''
* '' The Suicide Club''
* '' The Eavesdropper''
* '' One Busy Hour''
* '' The Note in the Shoe''
* ''Jones and the Lady Book Agent''
* '' The French Duel''
* '' A Baby's Shoe''
* ''The Jilt''
* ''Resurrection''
* ''Two Memories''
* '' Eloping with Auntie''
* ''The Cricket on the Hearth''
* '' His Duty''
* '' Eradicating Aunty''
* '' What Drink Did''
* ''The Violin Maker of Cremona''
* '' A New Trick''
* ''The Lonely Villa''
* '' The Son's Return''
* ''Her First Biscuits''
* '' The Faded Lilies''
* '' Was Justice Served?''
* '' The Peachbasket Hat''
* '' The Mexican Sweethearts''
* '' The Way of Man''
* '' The Necklace''
* ''The Message''
* '' The Country Doctor''
* ''The Cardinal's Conspiracy''
* '' Tender Hearts''
* '' The Friend of the Family''
* '' The Renunciation''
* '' Sweet and Twenty''
* '' Jealousy and the Man''
* '' A Convict's Sacrifice''
* '' The Slave''
* '' A Strange Meeting''
* '' The Mended Lute''
* '' They Would Elope''
* '' Jones' Burglar''
* '' The Better Way''
* '' With Her Card''
* '' Mrs. Jones' Lover'' or '' I Want My Hat''
* '' His Wife's Visitor''
* ''The Indian Runner's Romance''
* ''The Seventh Day''
* '' Oh, Uncle!''
* ''Pranks''
* '' The Mills of the Gods''
* ''The Sealed Room''
* '' The Little Darling''
* ''The Hessian Renegades''
* ''Comata, the Sioux''
* '' Getting Even''
* '' The Children's Friend''
* '' The Broken Locket''
* '' In Old Kentucky''
* '' A Fair Exchange''
* ''Leather Stocking''
* '' Wanted, a Child''
* '' The Awakening''
* '' Pippa Passes or The Song of Conscience''
* ''Fools of Fate''
* ''The Little Teacher''
* '' A Change of Heart''
* ''His Lost Love''
* '' The Expiation''
* '' In the Watches of the Night''
* '' Lines of White on a Sullen Sea''
* '' What's Your Hurry?''
* ''The Gibson Goddess''
* ''Nursing a Viper''
* '' The Restoration''
* '' The Light That Came''
* '' Two Women and a Man''
* '' A Sweet Revenge''
* '' A Midnight Adventure''
* '' The Open Gate''
* '' The Mountaineer's Honor''
* '' The Trick That Failed''
* '' In the Window Recess''
* '' The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period''
* ''Through the Breakers''
* ''The Red Man's View''
* ''A Corner in Wheat''
* '' The Test''
* '' In a Hempen Bag''
* ''A Trap for Santa Claus''
* ''In Little Italy''
* ''To Save Her Soul''
* ''The Day After''
* ''Choosing a Husband''
* ''The Heart of an Outlaw''
* ''Mamma''
* ''Bill Sharkey's Last Game''

1910

* ''The Rocky Road''
* '' The Dancing Girl of Butte''
* '' Her Terrible Ordeal''
* '' On the Reef''
* '' The Call''
* '' The Honor of His Family''
* '' The Last Deal''
* '' The Cloister's Touch''
* ''The Woman from Mellon's''
* '' The Course of True Love''
* '' The Duke's Plan''
* '' One Night and Then''
* ''The Englishman and the Girl''
* '' His Last Burglary''
* '' Taming a Husband''
* '' The Final Settlement''
* '' The Newlyweds''
* '' The Thread of Destiny''
* '' In Old California''
* '' The Man''
* '' The Converts''
* '' Faithful''
* '' The Twisted Trail''
* '' Gold Is Not All''
* '' The Smoker'' (director disputed)
* '' His Last Dollar''
* ''The Two Brothers''
* ''As It Is In Life''
* '' A Rich Revenge''
* ''A Romance of the Western Hills''
* '' Thou Shalt Not''
* '' The Tenderfoot's Triumph'' (director disputed)
* ''The Way of the World''
* '' Up a Tree'' (director disputed)
* '' The Gold Seekers''
* ''The Unchanging Sea''
* '' Love Among the Roses''
* '' Over Silent Paths''
* '' An Affair of Hearts'' (director disputed)
* ''Ramona''
* '' A Knot in the Plot'' (director disputed)
* '' The Impalement''
* '' In the Season of Buds''
* '' The Purgation''
* '' A Child of the Ghetto''
* '' A Victim of Jealousy''
* ''In the Border States''
* '' The Face at the Window''
* '' Never Again'' (director disputed)
* '' May and December'' (director disputed)
* '' The Marked Time-Table''
* '' A Child's Impulse''
* '' Muggsy's First Sweetheart''
* '' A Midnight Cupid''
* ''What the Daisy Said''
* '' A Child's Faith''
* '' A Flash of Light''
* '' Serious Sixteen''
* '' As the Bells Rang Out!''
* '' The Call to Arms''
* '' Unexpected Help''
* ''An Arcadian Maid''
* '' Her Father's Pride''
* ''The House with Closed Shutters'' (Civil War story)
* '' A Salutary Lesson''
* '' The Usurer''
* '' An Old Story with a New Ending'' (director disputed)
* '' The Sorrows of the Unfaithful''
* '' Wilful Peggy''
* ''The Modern Prodigal''
* '' The Affair of an Egg'' (director disputed)
* '' A Summer Idyll''
* '' Little Angels of Luck''
* ''A Mohawk's Way''
* '' In Life's Cycle''
* '' A Summer Tragedy'' (director disputed)
* ''The Oath and the Man''
* ''Rose O'Salem-Town''
* '' Examination Day at School''
* '' The Iconoclast''
* '' That Chink at Golden Gulch''
* ''The Broken Doll''
* '' The Banker's Daughters''
* '' The Message of the Violin''
* '' Two Little Waifs''
* '' Waiter No. 5''
* '' The Fugitive''
* '' Simple Charity''
* ''Sunshine Sue''
* ''The Song of the Wildwood Flute''
* '' His New Lid'' (director disputed)
* '' A Plain Song''
* ''A Child's Stratagem''
* '' The Golden Supper''
* '' His Sister-In-Law''
* '' The Lesson''
* ''White Roses'' (director disputed)
* '' Winning Back His Love''

1911

* '' Flaming Arrows''
* '' The Two Paths''
* '' When a Man Loves''
* ''The Italian Barber''
* '' His Trust''
* ''His Trust Fulfilled''
* ''Fate's Turning''
* '' The Poor Sick Men'' (director disputed)
* ''A Wreath of Orange Blossoms''
* '' Three Sisters''
* ''Heart Beats of Long Ago''
* '' What Shall We Do with Our Old?''
* '' Fisher Folks''
* '' The Diamond Star''
* ''His Daughter''
* '' The Lily of the Tenements''
* '' The Heart of a Savage''
* '' A Decree of Destiny''
* '' Conscience''
* ''Was He a Coward?''
* '' Teaching Dad to Like Her''
* ''The Lonedale Operator''
* ''The Spanish Gypsy''
* '' The Broken Cross''
* '' The Chief's Daughter''
* '' Paradise Lost'' (director disputed)
* '' Madame Rex''
* '' A Knight of the Road''
* '' His Mother's Scarf''
* ''How She Triumphed''
* '' The Two Sides''
* '' In the Days of '49''
* ''The New Dress''
* '' The Crooked Road''
* '' The White Rose of the Wilds''
* '' A Romany Tragedy''
* '' The Smile of a Child''
* '' Enoch Arden: Part I''
* '' Enoch Arden: Part II''
* ''The Primal Call''
* ''Her Sacrifice''
* '' Fighting Blood''
* '' The Thief and the Girl''
* '' The Jealous Husband''
* '' Bobby, the Coward''
* '' The Indian Brothers''
* ''A Country Cupid''
* ''The Last Drop of Water''
* ''Out from the Shadow''
* '' The Ruling Passion''
* '' The Sorrowful Example''
* '' The Blind Princess and the Poet''
* '' The Rose of Kentucky''
* '' Swords and Hearts''
* '' The Stuff Heroes Are Made Of''
* '' The Old Confectioner's Mistake''
* '' The Squaw's Love''
* '' Dan the Dandy''
* '' The Revenue Man and the Girl''
* '' Her Awakening''
* ''The Making of a Man''
* '' Italian Blood''
* '' The Unveiling''
* '' The Adventures of Billy''
* ''The Long Road''
* '' Love in the Hills''
* '' The Battle'' (Civil War story)
* '' The Trail of Books''
* ''Through Darkened Vales''
* ''The Miser's Heart''
* '' Sunshine Through the Dark''
* '' A Woman Scorned''
* '' The Failure''
* '' Saved from Himself''
* ''As in a Looking Glass''
* '' A Terrible Discovery''
* ''The Voice of the Child''

1912

* '' Grannie''
* '' The Baby and the Stork''
* '' A Tale of the Wilderness''
* '' The Eternal Mother''
* ''The Old Bookkeeper''
* ''For His Son''
* '' A Blot on the 'Scutcheon''
* ''The Transformation of Mike''
* ''A Sister's Love''
* '' Billy's Stratagem''
* '' The Mender of Nets''
* '' Under Burning Skies''
* '' The Sunbeam''
* '' A Siren of Impulse''
* '' A String of Pearls''
* '' The Girl and Her Trust''
* '' Iola's Promise''
* '' The Root of Evil''
* '' The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch''
* '' The Punishment''
* '' Fate's Interception''
* '' The Female of the Species''
* ''Just Like a Woman''
* ''One Is Business, the Other Crime''
* '' The Lesser Evil''
* '' The Old Actor''
* '' A Lodging for the Night''
* '' His Lesson''
* '' When Kings Were the Law''
* ''A Beast at Bay''
* '' An Outcast Among Outcasts''
* '' Home Folks''
* '' A Temporary Truce''
* '' Lena and the Geese''
* '' The Spirit Awakened''
* '' The School Teacher and the Waif''
* ''Man's Lust for Gold''
* '' An Indian Summer''
* '' Man's Genesis''
* '' Heaven Avenges''
* '' The Sands of Dee''
* '' Black Sheep''
* '' The Narrow Road''
* '' A Child's Remorse''
* '' The Inner Circle''
* ''A Change of Spirit''
* '' A Pueblo Romance''
* '' A Pueblo Legend''
* '' In the North Woods''
* ''An Unseen Enemy''
* '' Blind Love''
* ''Two Daughters of Eve''
* '' Friends''
* '' So Near, yet So Far''
* ''A Feud in the Kentucky Hills''
* ''The Chief's Blanket''
* '' In the Aisles of the Wild''
* ''The One She Loved''
* ''The Painted Lady''
* ''The Musketeers of Pig Alley''
* '' Heredity''
* ''The Massacre''
* ''Gold and Glitter''
* '' My Baby''
* '' The Informer''
* '' Brutality''
* ''The New York Hat''
* '' My Hero''
* ''The Burglar's Dilemma''
* '' A Cry for Help''
* ''The God Within''

1913

* '' Three Friends''
* ''The Telephone Girl and the Lady''
* ''An Adventure in the Autumn Woods''
* ''The Tender Hearted Boy''
* '' A Misappropriated Turkey''
* ''Brothers''
* '' Oil and Water''
* ''Drink's Lure''
* '' A Chance Deception''
* '' Love in an Apartment Hotel''
* '' Broken Ways''
* ''A Girl's Stratagem''
* ''The Unwelcome Guest''
* '' Near to Earth''
* ''Fate''
* ''A Welcome Intruder''
* '' The Sheriff's Baby''
* ''The Hero of Little Italy''
* ''The Perfidy of Mary''
* '' The Little Tease''
* ''A Misunderstood Boy''
* '' The Left-Handed Man''
* '' The Lady and the Mouse''
* '' If We Only Knew''
* '' The Wanderer''
* '' The Stolen Loaf''
* '' The House of Darkness''
* '' The Yaqui Cur''
* ''Just Gold''
* ''His Mother's Son''
* ''The Ranchero's Revenge''
* ''A Timely Interception''
* '' Death's Marathon''
* ''The Mothering Heart''
* ''Her Mother's Oath''
* '' The Sorrowful Shore''
* ''The Reformers; or, The Lost Art of Minding One's Business''
* ''The Enemy's Baby''
* '' The Mistake''
* ''The Coming of Angelo''
* '' Two Men of the Desert''
* ''The Adopted Brother''
* '' Madonna of the Storm''
* ''The Battle at Elderbush Gulch''
* '' The Conscience of Hassan Bey''

1914

* ''Waifs''
* ''Judith of Bethulia''
* '' The Battle of the Sexes''
* ''The Great Leap; Until Death Do Us Part''
* '' Brute Force''
* '' Home, Sweet Home''
* '' The Escape''
* '' The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill'''
* ''The Dishonored Medal''

1915

* ''The Birth of a Nation''

1916

* ''A Day with Governor Whitman''
* ''Intolerance''

1918

* ''Hearts of the World''
* '' The Great Love''

* '' Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal''
* ''The Greatest Thing in Life''

1919

* ''The World of Columbus''
* ''A Romance of Happy Valley''
* ''The Girl Who Stayed at Home''
* '' Broken Blossoms''
* ''True Heart Susie''

* ''The Fall of Babylon'' (re-edited version of said sequence from ''Intolerance'')
* ''The Mother and the Law'' (re-edited version of said sequence from ''Intolerance'')
* ''Scarlet Days''
* '' The Greatest Question''

1920

* ''The Idol Dancer''
* ''Remodeling Her Husband'' (director disputed)
* ''The Love Flower''
* ''Way Down East''

1921

* ''Dream Street''
* ''Orphans of the Storm''

1922

* '' One Exciting Night''
* ''Mammy's Boy'' (never completed; remade as ''His Darker Self'' by another director in 1924)

1923

* ''The White Rose''

1924

* '' America''
* '' Isn't Life Wonderful''

1925

* '' Sally of the Sawdust''
* '' That Royle Girl''

1926

* ''The Sorrows of Satan''

1927

* ''Topsy and Eva'' (co-director, uncredited)

1928

* ''Drums of Love''
* '' The Battle of the Sexes''

1929

* ''Lady of the Pavements''

1930

* ''Abraham Lincoln'' (first Griffith sound film)

1931

* '' The Struggle'' (last film)

References

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