Movies: D.W. Griffith

  • 1910
    A Child of the Ghetto

    A Child of the Ghetto (1910)

    A Child of the Ghetto

    4.51910HD

    After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees the ghetto of New York's Lower East Side and h...

    A Child of the Ghetto
  • 1910
    The Face at the Window

    The Face at the Window (1910)

    The Face at the Window

    01910HD

    Like his father before him, Ralph is admitted to the Graduate Club upon completing his studies at the university. He is presented with a commemorative stein to mark the occasion. Ralph meets an artist’s model, marries her over his father’s objections...

    The Face at the Window
  • 1908
    Over the Hills to the Poor House

    Over the Hills to the Poor House (1908)

    Over the Hills to the Poor House

    4.81908HD

    The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property, decides to divide it up among her children. To her son Charles, a wild but kind young fellow, she leaves a ...

    Over the Hills to the Poor House
  • 1912
    The Informer

    The Informer (1912)

    The Informer

    01912HD

    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 follow. But the brother weakens and fails to be true to his trust....

    The Informer
  • 1910
    All on Account of the Milk

    All on Account of the Milk (1910)

    All on Account of the Milk

    5.31910HD

    The hero, a young contractor, is mistaken by the heroine for a laborer, while he thinks she is the maid although she is the daughter of the manor. The hero continues to represent himself as a laborer in order to see the maid. The daughter, in order t...

    All on Account of the Milk
  • 1912
    Iola's Promise

    Iola's Promise (1912)

    Iola's Promise

    51912HD

    Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, and regards him as something different from other white people. Jack's sweetheart and her father ar...

    Iola's Promise
  • 2023
    Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse

    Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse (2023)

    Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse

    72023HD

    Mary Pickford's name remains inseparable from the legend of American cinema. She invented the star system at the beginning of the 20th century, and was the biggest star ever known, not just in Hollywood, but worldwide, at a time when actors didn't ev...

    Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse
  • 1909
    The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period

    The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period (1909)

    The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period

    0.51909HD

    During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, Catholic worship is forbidden on pain of death. Three soldiers are arrested as Catholics and condemned to die. Cromwell decides to spare two of them and to determine which should die by chance. The guards bring th...

    The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period
  • 1916
    Fifty-Fifty

    Fifty-Fifty (1916)

    Fifty-Fifty

    51916HD

    Naomi is a young aspiring artist known to her Bohemian friends as "The Nut." Naomi's alleged nuttiness does not in any way impede the efforts by wealthy Frederick Harmon to make the unworldly heroine his bride. When their first baby is born, Naomi be...

    Fifty-Fifty
  • 1911
    The Battle

    The Battle (1911)

    The Battle

    4.81911HD

    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 finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to h...

    The Battle
  • 1912
    Lena and the Geese

    Lena and the Geese (1912)

    Lena and the Geese

    4.21912HD

    A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a child about the same age. The two children grow up as sisters. Later, upon her deathbed, the noble lady repents and sends ...

    Lena and the Geese
  • 1909
    The Broken Locket

    The Broken Locket (1909)

    The Broken Locket

    3.51909HD

    George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink. One might have concluded he was lost, but there was the chance which the hand of Providence always bestows in the person of pretty little ...

    The Broken Locket
  • 1909
    The Cricket on the Hearth

    The Cricket on the Hearth (1909)

    The Cricket on the Hearth

    3.61909HD

    After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man....

    The Cricket on the Hearth
  • 1908
    A Calamitous Elopement

    A Calamitous Elopement (1908)

    A Calamitous Elopement

    4.21908HD

    A young couple are enjoying a romantic interlude in the young woman's home, when her father discovers them and angrily chases the young man out of the house. They thus decide to elope, and they make plans accordingly. But as they are leaving, a thief...

    A Calamitous Elopement
  • 1910
    A Plain Song

    A Plain Song (1910)

    A Plain Song

    01910HD

    Edith is a salesgirl in a department store who envys her store-mates, as she views them passing by with their sweethearts, lighthearted and happy. Therefore she feels highly flattered and pleased at the attentions of a traveling repertoire manager wh...

    A Plain Song
  • 1929
    Lady of the Pavements

    Lady of the Pavements (1929)

    Lady of the Pavements

    4.61929HD

    Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the streets" than her. Outraged, Diane decides to grant his wish, and enlists the services of a Spanish ...

    Lady of the Pavements
  • 1910
    The Modern Prodigal

    The Modern Prodigal (1910)

    The Modern Prodigal

    51910HD

    In the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city's spires, exclaiming to his dear old mother, "Mother, there in the big city is my sphere. There will I turn the world over." Off he goes cityward, ambitious and pre...

    The Modern Prodigal
  • 1909
    The Trick that Failed

    The Trick that Failed (1909)

    The Trick that Failed

    41909HD

    Nellie is a struggling artist whose paintings lie unsold. Billy, a successful painter, loves her, but she tells him that she cannot marry until she sells her paintings. Billy recruits his friends to buy her paintings. At first she is excited by the s...

    The Trick that Failed
  • 1910
    A Flash of Light

    A Flash of Light (1910)

    A Flash of Light

    51910HD

    An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist, and her younger sister take her place....

    A Flash of Light
  • 1909
    His Duty

    His Duty (1909)

    His Duty

    3.21909HD

    It's Bob Allen's twenty-first birthday. His mother and his brother Jack, a policeman present him with a cap, personalized with his initals in the lining. Jack then goes to work and Bob goes out also. Later in the evening, Jack is called to the scene ...

    His Duty