D.W. Griffith

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D.W. Griffith

Born 1875-01-22 LaGrange, Kentucky, USA 52 films

David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance (1916). Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and its immense popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film. It also proved extremely controversial at t…

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Filmography

52 films
San Francisco poster

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days bef…

San Francisco

★ 6.6 1936