# 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 [it; pt]
* As in a Looking Glass [it; pt]
* A Terrible Discovery
* The Voice of the Child

## 1912

* Grannie
* The Baby and the Stork [it; pt]
* A Tale of the Wilderness [it; pt]
* 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 [it; pt]
* 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 [it; pt]
* 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 [it; pt]
* The Ranchero's Revenge
* A Timely Interception
* Death's Marathon
* The Mothering Heart
* Her Mother's Oath [it; pt]
* The Sorrowful Shore
* The Reformers; or, The Lost Art of Minding One's Business [it; pt]
* The Enemy's Baby
* The Mistake
* The Coming of Angelo [it; pt]
* Two Men of the Desert
* The Adopted Brother [it; pt]
* 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

## 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)