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D.W. Griffith has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1900s through the 1920s.
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916 · Movie · Director
Top 34%MGM+ · Included
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
1919 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 44%MGM+ · Included
Way Down East
1920 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 44%Prime Video · Included
Orphans of the Storm
1921 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 48%MGM+ · Included
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Dir. D.W. Griffith · With Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
Dir. D.W. Griffith · With Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Dir. D.W. Griffith · With Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
Dir. D.W. Griffith · With Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut
A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.
Dir. D.W. Griffith · With Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish, Walter Miller
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.
Dir. D.W. Griffith · With Frank Powell, Grace Henderson, James Kirkwood
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
Dir. D.W. Griffith · With Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall
