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
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

1919

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

1926

The Sorrows of Satan

1927

Topsy and Eva (co-director, uncredited)

1928

1929

Lady of the Pavements

1930

Abraham Lincoln (first Griffith sound film)

1931

The Struggle (last film)

References

"D. W. Griffith". AFI Catalog. American Film Institute. Retrieved October 31, 2025.
Barry, Iris; Bowser, Eileen (1965). D.W. Griffith: American Film Master (PDF). Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved October 31, 2025.

Films directed by D. W. Griffith
1908	The Adventures of Dollie The Fight for Freedom 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 (lost) 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 A Sound Sleeper Lady Helen's Escapade Lucky Jim Jones and the Lady Book Agent Resurrection Two Memories Eloping with Auntie The Cricket on the Hearth The Violin Maker of Cremona A New Trick The Lonely Villa The Son's Return Her First Biscuits The Country Doctor The Cardinal's Conspiracy Tender Hearts The Friend of the Family The Renunciation The Mended Lute The Sealed Room The Little Darling The Hessian Renegades Comata, the Sioux Getting Even In Old Kentucky Leather Stocking Pippa Passes or The Song of Conscience Fools of Fate His Lost Love The Gibson Goddess Nursing a Viper The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period Through the Breakers The Red Man's View A Corner in Wheat A Trap for Santa Claus In Little Italy To Save Her Soul The Day After Choosing a Husband Bill Sharkey's Last Game
1910	The Rocky Road The Woman from Mellon's The Englishman and the Girl In Old California Faithful The Two Brothers As It Is In Life A Romance of the Western Hills The Unchanging Sea Ramona In the Season of Buds A Child of the Ghetto In the Border States What the Daisy Said A Flash of Light An Arcadian Maid The House with Closed Shutters Wilful Peggy The Modern Prodigal A Mohawk's Way The Oath and the Man Rose O'Salem-Town The Fugitive Winning Back His Love
1911	The Two Paths The Italian Barber His Trust His Trust Fulfilled Fate's Turning Heart Beats of Long Ago What Shall We Do with Our Old? Fisher Folks His Daughter The Lily of the Tenements A Decree of Destiny Was He a Coward? The Lonedale Operator The Spanish Gypsy The Broken Cross How She Triumphed The New Dress The Crooked Road The White Rose of the Wilds The Smile of a Child Enoch Arden: Part I Enoch Arden: Part II The Primal Call Fighting Blood The Indian Brothers A Country Cupid The Last Drop of Water Out from the Shadow The Blind Princess and the Poet Swords and Hearts The Stuff Heroes Are Made Of Her Awakening The Making of a Man The Adventures of Billy The Long Road Love in the Hills The Battle Through Darkened Vales The Miser's Heart A Woman Scorned The Voice of the Child
1912	The Eternal Mother The Old Bookkeeper For His Son The Transformation of Mike A Sister's Love Under Burning Skies The Sunbeam A String of Pearls The Girl and Her Trust The Root of Evil The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch The Punishment The Female of the Species Just Like a Woman One Is Business, the Other Crime The Lesser Evil A Beast at Bay A Lodging for the Night An Outcast Among Outcasts Home Folks A Temporary Truce The Spirit Awakened Man's Lust for Gold Man's Genesis The Sands of Dee The Narrow Road The Inner Circle A Change of Spirit An Unseen Enemy Blind Love The Massacre 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 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 (lost) Madonna of the Storm The Battle at Elderbush Gulch The Conscience of Hassan Bey
1914–1931	Judith of Bethulia (1914) Battle of the Sexes (1914, lost) Brute Force (1914) Home, Sweet Home (1914) The Escape (1914, lost) The Avenging Conscience: or "Thou Shalt Not Kill" (1914) The Birth of a Nation (1915) Intolerance (1916) Hearts of the World (1918) The Great Love (1918, lost) Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal (1918, lost) The Greatest Thing in Life (1918, lost) A Romance of Happy Valley (1919) The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919) Broken Blossoms (1919) True Heart Susie (1919) Scarlet Days (1919) The Greatest Question (1919) The Idol Dancer (1920) Remodeling Her Husband (1920, lost) The Love Flower (1920) Way Down East (1920) Dream Street (1921) Orphans of the Storm (1921) One Exciting Night (1922) The White Rose (1923) America (1924) Isn't Life Wonderful (1924) Sally of the Sawdust (1925) That Royle Girl (1925, lost) The Sorrows of Satan (1926) Drums of Love (1928) The Battle of the Sexes (1928) Lady of the Pavements (1929) Abraham Lincoln (1930) The Struggle (1931)