Directors
73 films in this collection
Collection no. #171166 minD. W. Griffith
166 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
Four stories unfold across ancient Babylon, biblical Judea, sixteenth-century France and modern America. Their characters face persecution, conflict…
Collection no. #668189 minD. W. Griffith
189 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
The lives of a Northern family and a Southern family become entangled through the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Romance and battlefield…
Collection no. #678149 minD. W. Griffith
149 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
Henriette brings her blind sister Louise to Paris in search of treatment, only for the two to be separated and placed at the mercy of strangers.…
Collection no. #69413 minD. W. Griffith
13 min · Subtitles: English
A financier gains control of the wheat market while farmers continue their exhausting work and families struggle to buy bread. His success is…
Collection no. #69815 minD. W. Griffith
15 min · Subtitles: English
A telegraph operator receives a large payroll shipment at an otherwise quiet station. When thieves attack, she sends a call for help and tries to…
Collection no. #73215 minD. W. Griffith
15 min · Subtitles: English
After their father's death, two sisters are left in a house where money has been placed in the safe for the night. A dishonest housekeeper brings in…
Collection no. #78115 minD. W. Griffith
15 min · Subtitles: English
An unemployed father abandons his family, believing they will be better off without him. An unexpected inheritance subsequently gives his wife and…
Collection no. #81730 minD. W. Griffith
30 min · Subtitles: English
A young woman chooses marriage and a journey west over the future offered by her guardian. Traveling with her husband and child, she becomes part of…
Collection no. #83423 minD. W. Griffith
23 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
A young wife works to help support her household while her husband looks for secure employment. His new prosperity introduces him to a more…
Collection no. #89512 minD. W. Griffith
12 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
A family outing by the river becomes a search when a rejected peddler abducts the young daughter. Hidden inside a barrel, the child is carried away…
Collection no. #938113 minD. W. Griffith
113 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
Two young people in a French village prepare to marry as war approaches. Shelling and military occupation separate them, destroy their families and…
Collection no. #128613 minD. W. Griffith
13 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
Mary loses her home and work after becoming associated with a fatal saloon fight. The Salvation Army offers her a new direction, but her former…
Collection no. #16989 minD. W. Griffith
9 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
A small girl wanders away from her distracted nanny and drifts out to sea in a boat. Fishermen rescue her, while her parents find belongings on the…
Collection no. #2086 minD. W. Griffith
86 min · Subtitles: English
D. W. Griffith follows Abraham Lincoln from his early work and relationships to the presidency and the Civil War. Personal disappointments lead into…
Collection no. #28670 minD. W. Griffith
70 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
A Chinese idealist arrives in London hoping to share a message of peace but becomes disillusioned. His care for a girl abused by her father gives…
Collection no. #30084 minD. W. Griffith
84 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
A young reader of Poe is forbidden by his uncle to pursue the woman he loves. Thoughts of suffering and death lead him toward a terrible solution.…
Collection no. #395145 minD. W. Griffith
145 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
A young woman is deceived into a false marriage and abandoned after becoming pregnant. Following the loss of her child, she finds work with a rural…
Collection no. #39759 minD. W. Griffith
59 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
A besieged city approaches surrender as its population runs short of food and hope. A widow decides to enter the enemy camp and use the commander's…