D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913

D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913

20025h 34m

Comedy · Drama

Overview

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."

Ed Wood
Pi
12 Angry Men
The Dowry
Murder at the Gallop
Pickpocket
Manhattan
La Dolce Vita
Murder Ahoy
Battleship Potemkin
Beauty and the Beast
On the Waterfront
La Jetée
Nanook of the North
Murder Most Foul
Man in Hiding
The Birth of a Nation
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Stalag 17
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)