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D.W. Griffith

Directors and Filmmakers

American film director (1875 to 1948), one of the most influential figures of early narrative cinema, credited with popularizing techniques such as the close-up, cross-cutting and the feature-length film. His 1919 film Broken Blossoms was among the first American films to portray an interracial relationship sympathetically.

Facts
Birth Year
1875 1
Death Year
1948 1
Nationality
American 1
Defining Contribution
Pioneered film editing techniques and expanded the art of the narrative film 1
Classification
Award
Academy Honorary Award 1
D.W. Griffith
Filter Results6 entries

Broken Blossoms

D.W. Griffith

Intolerance (1916 film)

D.W. Griffith

Judith of Bethulia

D.W. Griffith

Orphans of the Storm

D.W. Griffith

The Birth of a Nation

D.W. Griffith

Way Down East

D.W. Griffith
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Works Created

Broken Blossoms, Landmark Works
Intolerance (1916 film), Landmark Works
Source Intolerance (film) (Wikipedia)
Judith of Bethulia, Landmark Works
Source Wikipedia: Judith of Bethulia
Orphans of the Storm, Landmark Works
Source Orphans of the Storm (Wikipedia)
The Birth of a Nation, Landmark Works
Source The Birth of a Nation (Wikipedia)
Way Down East, Landmark Works
Source Way Down East (Wikipedia)
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David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director.
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    1875-01-22
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    1948-07-23
  • Intro, sentence 1
    was an American film director
  • Intro, sentence 2
    he pioneered many aspects of film editing and expanded the art of the narrative film
  • Wikipedia category (academy-honorary-award), checked 2026-09-27
    Wikipedia category for academy-honorary-award
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Intolerance (film) (Wikipedia)
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Intolerance is a 1916 American anthology silent film directed by D. W. Griffith.
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Way Down East (Wikipedia)
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Way Down East is a 1920 American silent melodrama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.
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Orphans of the Storm (Wikipedia)
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Orphans of the Storm is a 1921 American silent melodrama film directed by D. W. Griffith and set in late-18th-century France, before and during the French Revolution.
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Wikipedia: Judith of Bethulia
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Judith of Bethulia is a 1914 American silent epic film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the play "Judith and the Holofernes" (1896) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, which itself was a script adaptation written by Grace Adele Pierce (1858-1923) of the Book of Judith.
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The Birth of a Nation (Wikipedia)
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