D. W. Griffith filmography

These are the films directed by the pioneering American filmmaker D. W. Griffith (1875–1948). According to IMDb, he directed 41 feature-length and 478 short 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
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• 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
• '
• '
• A Terrible Discovery
• The Voice of the Child

1912

• Grannie
• '
• '
• 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
• '
• 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
• '
• 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
• '
• The Ranchero's Revenge
• A Timely Interception
• Death's Marathon
• The Mothering Heart
• '
• The Sorrowful Shore
• '
• The Enemy's Baby
• The Mistake
• '
• Two Men of the Desert
• '
• 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)

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