With Biograph Company (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. The Red Man's View
137 min | Action, Adventure, Drama | Pre-production
A film about a Shoshone band who lived in a secluded valley in the 1860's, during the time of the last 'Free' roaming Native Americans in the midst of the American Civil War. They are discovered by a group of Union soldiers and squatters, and forced to move from their home. They are moved from valley to valley as the Union takes more and more of their land in a plan to eradicate the country of '... See full summary »
Director: Thomas R. Bond II | Stars: Zahn McClarnon, Booboo Stewart, Courtney Gains, Crystle Lightning
2. A Corner in Wheat (1909)
G | 14 min | Short, Crime, Drama
An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Grace Henderson, James Kirkwood, Linda Arvidson
Votes: 2,595
3. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish, Clara T. Bracy, Walter Miller
Votes: 2,374
4. Brigantia
151 min | Action, Adventure, Drama | Pre-production
A British archaeologist finds an ancient village that opens the door to a story of a Druid Ministre Airell in the time Christ and religious upheaval, revealing the mysteries of Briton, the Druids, the coming of a new world.
Director: Thomas R. Bond II | Stars: Emma Samms, Robert Powell, James Phelps, James Robinson
5. Judith of Bethulia (1914)
Not Rated | 61 min | Drama
A religious woman seeks to save her people from destruction by seducing and murdering the enemy leader, but her plans get complicated once she falls for him.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron
Votes: 1,405
6. The Woman in Black (I) (1914)
55 min | Drama, Romance
Young gypsy girl Mary, is seduced by the immoral Robert Crane and abandoned. She is exiled from the gypsies and, along with her mother Zenda, known as "The Woman in Black," she vows revenge... See full summary »
Director: Lawrence Marston | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Alan Hale, Mrs. Lawrence Marston, Marie Newton
Votes: 36
7. The Informer (1912)
18 min | Short, Drama
The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart during the perilous times which are to ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Walter Miller, Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, Kate Bruce
Votes: 39
8. Ramona (1910)
17 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Ramona is a little orphan of the great Spanish household of Moreno. Alessandro, the Indian, arrives at the Camulos ranch with his sheep-shearers, showing his first meeting with Ramona. ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, Francis J. Grandon, Kate Bruce
Votes: 424
9. The Primitive Man (1914)
32 min | Short, Adventure, Drama
A primitive tribe are attacked by apemen and menaced by various prehistoric monsters.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, William J. Butler, Wilfred Lucas
Votes: 125
10. In Old California (1910)
17 min | Short, Drama, History
An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned California in the early 19th century.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 76
11. Two Daughters of Eve (1912)
18 min | Drama, Short
Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this story acted conventionally, she nevertheless maligned the other woman simply because she was an... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Claire McDowell, Florence Geneva, Gertrude Bambrick
Votes: 26
12. Man's Genesis (1912)
17 min | Short, Adventure, Drama
A man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man. Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated by Bruteforce, he bumps into Lillywhite, who has also ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: W. Chrystie Miller, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Wilfred Lucas
Votes: 95
13. The Unchanging Sea (1910)
Not Rated | 14 min | Drama, Short
In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Arthur V. Johnson, Linda Arvidson, Gladys Egan, Mary Pickford
Votes: 810
14. An Unseen Enemy (1912)
Not Rated | 17 min | Crime, Short, Thriller
A brother and his two younger sisters inherit a modest amount from their father. When the brother is away, their shady housekeeper decides to take it for herself.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Elmer Booth, Robert Harron
Votes: 917
15. Death's Marathon (1913)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Two business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the irresponsible partner, much to her later regret. He squanders money on gambling, as his interest in her... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Walter Miller, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 591
16. Thou Shalt Not (1910)
16 min | Drama, Short
Edgar Thurston imagines he is suffering from what is usually termed a neglected cough and resorts to some of the numerous rostrums supposed to relieve such disorder, but without effect. ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Marion Leonard, Kathlyn Williams, Charles West
17. The Lonedale Operator (1911)
Unrated | 17 min | Short, Drama, Romance
When her father becomes ill, a young woman takes over the telegraph at a lonely western railroad station. She soon gets word that the next train will deliver the payroll for a mining ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, George Nichols, Francis J. Grandon, Wilfred Lucas
Votes: 1,257
18. The Kid (1910)
Short, Romance
To Walter Holden since the death of his wife, falls the responsibility of raising his only child, a boy about twelve years old. Holden being of domestic tastes, feels the loneliness of the ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Powell | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Jack Pickford, Florence Barker, Mary Pickford
19. The Necklace (1909)
11 min | Short, Drama
Miss Louise Leroque was one of those charming young ladies, born, as if through an error of destiny, into a family of clerks, and after she married John Kendrick, she suffered an incessant ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Rose King, Herbert Prior, Caroline Harris, Mary Pickford
Votes: 55
20. My Baby (1912)
17 min | Short, Comedy
When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the only one left, in outraged spirit promises never to leave her father, but soon she too is ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, Eldean Steuart, W. Chrystie Miller
Votes: 54
21. The Female of the Species (1912)
17 min | Short, Drama
Four survivors from an abandoned mining town - a married couple, the wife's sister, and a younger woman - are making a desperate trip to safety across the desert. The wife suspects the ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles West, Claire McDowell, Mary Pickford, Dorothy Bernard
Votes: 315
22. The Impalement (1910)
16 min | Short, Drama
Walter Avery is blessed with a most dutiful and loving wife whose every endeavor and thought is to make him happy, but being a man of the world he finds domestic life dull and his wife's ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Florence Barker, Alfred Paget, Kate Bruce
23. The Lonely Villa (1909)
8 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: David Miles, Marion Leonard, Mary Pickford, Gladys Egan
Votes: 1,019
24. The Painted Lady (1912)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Madge Kirby, Charles Hill Mailes, Kate Bruce
Votes: 621
25. In the Border States (1910)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama, War
During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. After he leaves, Confederate troops forage on his property, where a soldier encounters one of his ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles West, Charles Arling, Owen Moore, William J. Butler
Votes: 543
26. A Feud in the Kentucky Hills (1912)
17 min | Short, Romance
A Kentucky brother proposes to his adopted sister. She refuses, but their mother convinces her to marry him. Then the younger brother returns after years away, takes one look at the teenage girl and falls head over heels for her.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Charles Hill Mailes, Kate Bruce, Walter Miller
Votes: 75
27. Life of Villa (1912)
Documentary, War
Although some scenes were re-enacted after the fact, this is a real documentary on the struggle of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to overthrow dictator Porfirio Díaz . Directors Christy... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Pancho Villa, Don Luis Terrazas
Votes: 28
28. His Trust: The Faithful Devotion and Self-Sacrifice of an Old Negro Servant (1911)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Drama, War
A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in an exciting battle sequence, ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Wilfred Lucas, Dell Henderson, Claire McDowell, Edith Haldeman
Votes: 634
29. The Mender of Nets (1912)
16 min | Short, Romance
A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use violence to protect his sister's honor.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Charles West, Marguerite Marsh, W. Chrystie Miller
Votes: 236
30. Fighting Blood (1911)
18 min | Short, Action, Western
An old soldier on the frontier, the father of a dozen children, a staunch patriot himself, brings these children up with rigid military training. He conducts his household as a garrison ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: George Nichols, Kate Bruce, Robert Harron, Florence La Badie
Votes: 162
31. The Battle (1911)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Action, Drama
Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles West, Blanche Sweet, Charles Hill Mailes, Spottiswoode Aitken
Votes: 365
32. The Sands of Dee (1912)
17 min | Romance, Short
A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One day she meets a wily artist painting on the beach, he seduces the young girl and gives her a ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Charles Hill Mailes, Grace Henderson
Votes: 87
33. Our American Sweetheart
Biography, Drama | Announced
Deals with Mary Pickford's life, her personal and career struggles, to the end of her life at her home 'Pickfair'.
Director: Thomas R. Bond II | Stars: Gary Lockwood, Taryn Southern, Samantha Lockwood, Aimee-Lynn Chadwick
34. The Redman's View (1909)
14 min | Short, Western
An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one young Indian woman stay behind. This woman ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Owen Moore, Lottie Pickford, Kate Bruce, Charles Craig
Votes: 396
35. The Mothering Heart (1913)
Not Rated | 29 min | Short, Drama
A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and takes up with ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Walter Miller, Lillian Gish, Kate Bruce, Viola Barry
Votes: 834
36. The New York Hat (1912)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Drama
The young village minister was not quite as discreet as he might have been in fulfilling the strange trust left by the dying mother, but it certainly worked for the common good. By the ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Charles Hill Mailes, Kate Bruce, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 898
37. The School Teacher and the Waif (1912)
17 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Nora, a wild girl who lives with her alcoholic father, is forced to attend school. The untamed girl, who does not know how to socialize, is soon taunted by the other children. She warms ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Edwin August, Mary Pickford, Charles Hill Mailes, Bert Hendler
Votes: 68
38. Under the Gaslight (1914)
Drama
Judas, the Courtland family servant, is discharged for stealing and returns to her husband William Byke and her baby daughter, who is being cared for by girl waif Blossom. Judas, eager for ... See full summary »
Director: Lawrence Marston | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, William Russell, Irene Howley, Millicent Evans
39. A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)
Not Rated | 16 min | Drama, Short
The children set a trap for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, knowing he has to come through the window because their estate has no chimney. Their father, who abandoned them and his wife before... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Marion Leonard, Gladys Egan, John Tansey
Votes: 370
40. The Burglar's Dilemma (1912)
15 min | Short, Drama
In this latter-day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young burglar is about to enter the house. The jealous brother summons police, who then charge ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Henry B. Walthall, Robert Harron, Harry Carey
Votes: 411
41. The Children's House (1915)
Documentary, Short
A documentary about Montessori schools.
Star: Maria Montessori
42. The Battle of Elderbush Gulch (1913)
Not Rated | 29 min | Short, Action, Western
The fact that an Indian tribe is eating puppies starts an action-packed battle in a Western town.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mae Marsh, Leslie Loveridge, Alfred Paget, Robert Harron
Votes: 886
43. The Massacre (1912)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Action, War
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Wilfred Lucas, Blanche Sweet, Charles West, Alfred Paget
Votes: 333
44. The Son's Return (1909)
11 min | Short, Drama
A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing his fat wallet, plan to rob him.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles West, Herbert Prior, Anita Hendrie, Mary Pickford
Votes: 112
45. A Beast at Bay (1912)
17 min | Short, Drama
A young, and fickle girl ( Mary Pickford ) dumps her admiring boyfriend ( Edwin August ) because she views him as a coward. Meanwhile a ruthless convict ( Alfred Paget ) has escaped and ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Edwin August, Alfred Paget, Mae Marsh
Votes: 214
46. His Trust Fulfilled (1911)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama
Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George, a slave, takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Wilfred Lucas, Claire McDowell, Adele DeGarde, Dorothy West
Votes: 298
47. The Sealed Room (1909)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama, History
A king exacts vengeance upon his faithless mistress and her lover.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, Henry B. Walthall, Linda Arvidson
Votes: 913
48. The Two Brothers (I) (1910)
17 min | Short, Western
In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born in a noble Spanish family and reared by a mother noble in both station and character, ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Arthur V. Johnson, Dell Henderson, Kate Bruce, Marion Leonard
Votes: 54
49. Getting Rid of Trouble (1912)
10 min | Comedy, Short
The Newlyweds move into their new flat and prepare to entertain their uncle. A cook must be engaged and they go to the employment office to get one. It would spoil the fun to describe her; ... See full summary »
Director: Dell Henderson | Stars: Charles Murray, Edward Dillon, William J. Butler, Kathleen Butler
50. The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama, War
A Confederate soldier shames his mother and sister by going AWOL during battle. His sister takes his place, with tragic results, leaving him to live out his life in shame, hiding to protect his family name.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Dorothy West, Grace Henderson, Charles West
Votes: 558