The beginning of a master
In the span of five years, pioneering director D.W. Griffith delivered some 450 films for the Biograph Company at a rate of two or three films per week. One and two reels in length, these works showed the filmmaker inventing, borrowing, and perfecting techniques he later used to memorable effect in "The Birth of a Nation," "Intolerance," "Way Down East" and "Orphans of the Storm." Including Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Walthall, and Mae Marsh. Among the 22 titles included on this landmark release are such widely recognized masterworks as "The Musketeers of Pig Alley," "The Battle at Elderbush Gulch," "The New York Hat," and "A Corner in Wheat."
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Anita Loos
Writer
Edward Acker
Writer
Elmer Booth
Lillian Gish
Clara T. Bracy
Walter Miller
Alfred Paget
Mary Pickford
Mack Sennett
Lionel Barrymore
The Chaplin Revue73%
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge63%
Tyler Perry's Madea on the Run - The Play75%
Rogue Agent63%
Iron Jawed Angels67%
...All the Marbles61%
SubUrbia61%
Closer to the Moon65%
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault71%
Hands of Stone66%
The Safety of Objects65%
The Secret of Santa Vittoria69%
The Audrey Hepburn Story60%
Aníkúlápó71%
The Congress64%
Man of a Thousand Faces67%
Treasure65%
Nothing in Common59%
Roll Bounce67%
Mr. Morgan's Last Love65%
