This documentary respectfully interviews a number of important American directors who have in one way or another "bucked the...
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1990
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The directorial career of D.W. Griffith, "the father of the American cinema," ended on a discordant note with The Struggle,...
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1931
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To date, this D.W. Griffith epic is the only talking-picture effort to encapsulate the entire life of Abraham Lincoln, from...
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1930
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1929
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Pioneering filmmaker D.W. Griffith's days of glory were well behind him when he agreed to direct Drums of Love. Indicative of...
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1928
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A remake of a 1914 D.W. Griffith potboiler, The Battle of the Sexes is a highly entertaining, if cautionary, tale of a...
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1928
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Though D.W. Griffith had given up his independent-filmmaker status by joining Paramount Pictures in 1926, he had lost none of...
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1926
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1925
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Pioneering filmmaker D.W. Griffith directed W.C. Fields in his first starring role in this silent comedy. When Mary Foster...
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1925
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This epic tale about the American Revolution broke the bank for filmmaker D.W. Griffith. Robert W. Chambers loosely adapted...
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1924
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Producer/director D.W. Griffith's feature is a fairly realistic study of the deprivations visited on the German people after...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1924
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Too long by at least 3 reels, D. W. Griffith's The White Rose is nonetheless one of the best and most accomplished of the...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1923
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At the time he made this confusing blend of melodrama, mystery, and comedy, D.W. Griffith was in financial trouble. This...
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1922
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1922
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D.W. Griffith garnishes this romantic fable with a dreamy gauze of Victorian melodramatic sensibility. As an intertitle of...
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1921
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"I'm not a bad businessman", filmmaker D.W. Griffith once protested, "Honestly I'm not!" Yet industryites were certain that...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1920
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A more exotic story than 1920s audiences had come to expect from D.W. Griffith, The Love Flower nonetheless adheres to...
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1920
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1920
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1920
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As a child, Nellie Jarvis (Lillian Gish) witnessed a murder, but it only remains a shadowy memory. After the death of her...
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1920
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This D.W. Griffith picture has the distinction of being, arguably, the worst film that the director ever made. For starters,...
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1919
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True Heart Susie is one of D.W. Griffith's "pastoral" films, wherein plot takes second place to characterization and romance....
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1919
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Intolerance, D.W. Griffith's towering achievement interlocking four stories of intolerance throughout the ages, has been...
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1919
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Out of all of Griffith's films about the Great War, this one impressed the least. Perhaps Carol Dempster should share part of...
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1919
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Since much of this film takes place in rural Kentucky, where director D.W. Griffith grew up, it no doubt has many...
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1919
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1919
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On the heels of his masterpiece, Intolerance, which dramatized the futility of war born out of prejudice, director...
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1918
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In the sentimental world of filmmaker D.W. Griffith, the greatest thing in life is love. Obtaining it and understanding it,...
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1918
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This war-time D.W. Griffith film was literally filler -- some of the footage was left over from around the time he shot...
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1918
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1916
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Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s splendid physique was seen in all its pristine glory in the 1916 western The Half-Breed. In what...
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1916
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One might be inclined to dismiss the title of this film as a contradiction in terms -- but with Lillian Gish in the lead, how...
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1916
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1916
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Lillian Gish shows almost as much spunk in this picture as her hoydenish sister Dorothy Gish usually did. Daphne La Tour...
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1916
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Silent superstar Douglas Fairbanks lampoons both his dashing onscreen persona and the detective mystery genre in this curious...
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1916
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The Good Bad Man is at once a straight western and a gentle spoof of the genre. Douglas Fairbanks plays a fellow who calls...
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1916
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1916
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Douglas Fairbanks headlines this fast-paced and funny adventure set in contemporary Manhattan playing a New Yorker who...
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1916
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1916
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Dorothy Gish was seen at her light-comedy best in the Fine Arts production Susan Rocks the Boat. Gish plays the title...
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1916
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Douglas Fairbanks stars as "Sunny" Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits. This places Wiggins at odds...
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1916
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In one of her autobiographies, Lillian Gish reprinted in toto the studio synopsis of the D.W. Griffith production The Lily...
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1915
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1915
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This adaptation of the Tennyson poem is graced with the presence of silent luminary Lillian Gish as Annie Lee. Three children...
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1915
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The Sable Lorcha was inspired by a story by Horace Hazeltine (a pseudonym for Charles Stokes Wayne). Saturnine character...
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1915
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Supervised by D.W. Griffith, Martyrs of the Alamo was directed by Griffith's loyal but considerably less inspired assistant...
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1915
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1915
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Allan Dwan was the producer-screenwriter and D.W. Griffith the supervising director of the Northwoods melodrama Jordan is a...
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1915
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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1915
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The 4-reel Gangsters of New York was an acceptable imitation D.W. Griffith picture, directed by Griffith associate...
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1914
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Paul Armstrong's venerable stage melodrama The Escape was first brought to the screen by D.W. Griffith in 1914. In true...
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1914
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1914
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The direction of 1914's His Last Dollar has often been attributed to D.W. Griffith. However, since Griffith was preoccupied...
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1914
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Conservative Biograph Studios, having galloped to prominence on the coattails of their star director D.W. Griffith, refused...
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1914
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Forced by the dictates of his Biograph contract to give up directing in favor of "supervising," D.W. Griffith left the studio...
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1914
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This innovative psychological drama represents one of D.W. Griffith's early full-length feature films and contains...
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1914
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While busy with The Birth of a Nation, director D.W. Griffith began a small-scale contemporary drama called The Mother and...
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1914
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This tragedy is set in the Algerian desert and begins as a selfish French Foreign Legion officer abandons the native girl he...
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1914
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1914
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1913
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1913
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The "three friends" in this sentimental Gaumont effort are an elderly cab driver, his faithful horse and his pet dog. Early...
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1913
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1913
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A besieged blockhouse containing a frightened Lillian Gish, marauding Indians, and a Mexican who heroically brings the...
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The Old Actor was produced by the Eclipse Company, one of the lesser film firms of the pre-1910 years. Unable to find work...
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D.W. Griffith -- The Female of the Species and Selected Biograph Shorts, Vol. 3 is an intriguing collection of socially...
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Cherubic character actor Otis Harlan stars as Goodrich Mudd, the "black sheep" of the film's title. The bane of his prominent...
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Old Stephen Rutherford (Gerald Griffin) is a wealthy curmudgeon who disowned his son when he married a poor girl. The son is...
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Nine-year-old Nedda (Madge Evans) is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots back to the reign...
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Elmer Booth is an ex-convict, and Mary Pickford is his devoted wife. Booth and his buddy are miserable in prison, but Mary...
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A wagon train is attacked by marauding Indians in this typically grisly Biograph one-reel western melodrama preserved in the...
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Filmed during the Biograph Company's yearly winter excursion to sunny California, this one-reel Western melodrama features...
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This simple and very effective melodramatic short film was a landmark in its day; in fact, today it is still a fine example...
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Wintering in Southern California 1910-1911, D. W. Griffith and the Biograph stock company filmed this western melodrama,...
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D.W. Griffith's The Two Paths is frequently written off as a "potboiler," but, in 1911 at least, any one of Griffith's...
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This one-reel Indian melodrama was directed by D.W. Griffith on locations at San Fernando and in the San Gabriel Mountains...
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Mary Pickford was popular enough in early 1911 to be identified by name in the trade magazine Variety's review of...
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The Biograph melodrama Two Little Waifs was partially filmed on location in Greenwich, Connecticut. Placed in an orphanage,...
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Peggy (Mary Pickford) is a strong-willed young woman who lives during the 18th century. She is not attracted to any of her...
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Thanks to constant television exposure in the early 1950s, The Message of the Violin is one of the best-known of...
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In his characteristic fashion, D.W.Griffith attacked modern-day hypocrisy and bigotry by using a historical example in Rose...
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Among the many villains in D.W.Griffith's 1916 epic Intolerance were those self-styled "social uplifters" who presumptuously...
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The unfortunate title is the only truly "racist" aspect of this Biograph one-reeler. Set in the Old West (actually the...
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This D.W.Griffith-directed Biograph melodrama is set during the Russian Revolution. No, not the successful 1917 coup, but...
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The undeveloped terrain of Fishkill, New York and Westfield, New Jersey stood in for the "Wild West" in the Biograph...
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Running just shy of a full 1000-foot reel, Biograph's One Night -- and Then was what was known at the time as a "bohemian"...
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This Biograph gambling melodrama was completed by D.W. Griffith in a fast two days. The hero, a chronic gambler, embezzles...
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D.W. Griffith dashed off the one-reel Little Angels of Luck entirely within the confines of the Bronx Biograph studios. Since...
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This 990-foot Biograph "temperance melodrama" was filmed in late November of 1909. Charles Craig plays the leading character,...
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Filmed between December 12 and 14, 1909, the Biograph "triangle drama" On the Reef was ready for theatrical display within...
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The outskirts of Paterson, New Jersey proved an interesting substitute for 18th-century Paris in Biograph's French Revolution...
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Always fascinated with Native American mythology and folklore, director D.W. Griffith turned out no fewer than six "Indian"...
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This Biograph "temperance melodrama" was filmed at the company's Bronx Studios, with location work completed in...
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No relation to the 1910 D.W.Griffith production of the same name, the 1913 release The Iconoclast was a three-reeler from the...
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Like most of the director's Biograph Civil War dramas, D.W. Griffith's The Honor of His Family can be regarded today as...
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When an Indian is found cruelly murdered, the tribe begins to plan for a revenge attack against the nearby white settlement...
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By 1910, D.W. Griffith was far too busy to personally direct all of Biograph's films, thus he legislated authority to such...
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An excellent early D.W.Griffith effort, Her Terrible Ordeal was completed the first week of December, 1909, and released six...
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Having moved to the California facilities of Biograph studios in late January of 1910, D.W.Griffith wasted no time getting to...
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Described by its parent studio Biograph as a "western comedy," The Dancing Girl of Butte was filmed in the wide open spaces...
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The New Jersey communities of Paterson and Westfield were used as exterior "backdrops" in this Biograph comedy....
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Not altogether interested in comedy, Biograph's director-general D.W.Griffith usually assigned the direction of the studio's...
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This Biograph costume drama was set in France during the era of King Louis XIII. Upon learning that her father intends to...
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Back on the East Coast after several months in California, D.W. Griffith filmed the one-reel A Summer Idyll at Biograph's...
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A widower (George O. Nicholls) must raise his young daughter by himself. He gets a job at a pigeon farm. He falls in love...
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This Biograph one-reeler was copyrighted under the title The Girl From Mellon's. Stalwart D.W. Griffith stock-company actor...
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Mary Pickford is a young woman who convinces a farmer's wife to hire her as a maid. When a travelling salesman comes by the...
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The Bronx studios of Biograph pictures were transformed to the drawing rooms of 18th-century Europe in this rare comedy from...
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Despite its title, this Biograph half-reeler is a comedy. The plot is the old one about two poverty-stricken souls pretending...
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This 989-foot D.W. Griffith production was advertised by its home studio of Biograph as a "contemporary melodrama." Most of...
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Long before his epic Birth of a Nation, D.W.Griffith was turning out such one-reel Biograph Civil War melodramas as...
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This Biograph "monastic drama" was set during Feudal Times. Kidnapping the wife of one of his vassals, a despotic Duke forces...
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Described by the Biograph publicity department as a "circus romance," D.W. Griffith's The Call was partially filmed on...
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This 386-foot-long D.W. Griffith production was released by Biograph on the same reel as Griffith's 587-foot comedy...
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Biograph's The Convict's Sacrifice was lensed by D. W. Griffith on location at Fort Lee, New Jersey. Released from prison, a...
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Completed in late 1909, Biograph's Choosing a Husband was a rare comedy effort from D.W.Griffith. The heroine is ardently...
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Incorrectly reviewed by the trad magazine Variety under the title The Sealed Door, this Renaissance melodrama is among the...
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D.W. Griffith's Renunciation is a comedy western, filmed in the wilds of Shadyside, New Jersey. Fascinated by a pair of...
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The Biograph Bulletin described D.W. Griffith's Faded Lilies as a "Contemporary Unrequited Love Tragedy." That's quite a lot...
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Advertised by Biograph studios as a "Contemporary Temperance Melodrama," D. W. Griffith's The Broken Locket was filmed in...
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Running 211 feet (approximately 4 minutes), Little Darling was filmed right after the more ambitious D. W. Griffith...
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D.W. Griffith's Indian Runner's Romance represented one of the director's first forays to Biograph's facilities in...
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D.W. Griffith's The Lure of the Gown was advertised by Biograph Films as "An Italian Contemporary Romance" -- with Fort Lee,...
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Described by its parent studio Biograph as a "French Revolution melodrama," Nursing a Viper runs a thrill-packed 920 feet (or...
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Incorrectly reviewed under the title The Wrong Bottle, this D. W. Griffith melodrama was actually copyrighted as The Medicine...
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Evidently a lost film, D. W. Griffith's With Her Card was billed as a "contemporary romance." Running a full 1000-foot reel...
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D.W. Griffith and the Biograph stock company tackled James Fenimore Cooper in this 996-foot historical melodrama produced at...
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Filmed at the Bronx Biograph studios, this adaptation of the Robert Browning poem Pippa Passes was a milestone in the career...
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In this D. W. Griffith-directed historical drama boasting an all-star cast, the hero is a dispatch runner for the American...
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This Biograph human-interest drama ran a spare 296 feet. The story focuses on a poor family with too many children. The...
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Reviewed by the trade paper Variety under the title A Terrible Quarrel, this D. W. Griffith comedy was ultimately released...
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This 974-foot Biograph subject was designated by the studio as a "Contemporary Melodrama." The main character, a young...
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D. W. Griffith's The Winning Coat was set in France, during the reign of King Louis XIII. The hero, a young courtier, is in...
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D.W. Griffith used the Bronx facilities of the Biograph studios, together with a few location shots filmed at Fort Lee, NJ,...
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Described in the Biograph Bulletin as a "contemporary show-business farce," D. W. Griffith's A Wreath in Time is all that and...
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This D.W. Griffith-directed "contemporary comedy" was filmed at the Bronx headquarters of Biograph studios, with location...
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Not a wartime drama in itself, this routine story of intrigue and betrayal is set fifteen years after the fact. During the...
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Most film historians agree that D. W. Griffith was sole director at Biograph Studios during the fall and winter of 1908. No...
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Biograph's The Redman and the Child was historically important for two reasons; it was the second film directorial effort of...
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This touching story is about a little girls who attempts to pawn her doll for food money for her sick and starving mother....
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In this four hanky early silent melodrama, Ruth tries to survive amidst tragedy and toil on New York's Lower East Side. It...
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