The first American feature-length films, made between 1913 and 1919, when Hollywood moved from one-reel shorts to multi-reel features with long-form storytelling, from the social melodrama Traffic in Souls to D. W. Griffith's Judith of Bethulia, The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance and Broken Blossoms. A work belongs here when its article places it in these years. It excludes the later silent dramas of the 1920s. Works are placed by what their cited article states about their country, form and period, and each work sits in exactly one group of this subcategory, so a film that fits two traditions goes where its article places it first.
Early American Feature Films, 1913 to 1919
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The Birth of a Nation (Wikipedia)
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The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D.
Intolerance (film) (Wikipedia)
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Intolerance is a 1916 American anthology silent film directed by D.
Broken Blossoms (Wikipedia)
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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl, often referred to simply as Broken Blossoms, is a 1919 American silent melodrama film directed by D.
Traffic in Souls (Wikipedia)
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Traffic in Souls (also released as While New York Sleeps) is a 1913 American silent crime drama film focusing on forced prostitution (white slavery) in the United States.
Wikipedia: Regeneration (1915 film)
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Regeneration (alternately called The Regeneration) is a 1915 American silent biographical crime drama co-written and directed by Raoul Walsh.
Wikipedia: Judith of Bethulia
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Judith of Bethulia is a 1914 American silent epic film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B.
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