miniatura|Retrat de David Wark Griffith D. W. Griffith va ser un director de cinema dels Estats Units que és considerat com un dels creadors de la narració cinematogràfica. Es consignen aquí només les pel·lícules en que va participar com a director.
1908 miniatura|Gladys Egan, Mary Pickford, Adele DeGarde I Marion Leonard (d'esquerre a dreta) en un fotograma de la pel·ículal The Lonely Villa (1909) miniatura|Linda Arvidson, James Kirkwood i W. Chrystie Miller en un fotograma de la pel·lícula A Corner in Wheat (1909) miniatura|Marion Leonard, Henry B. Walthall i Arthur Johnson en un fotograma de la pel·lícula In old California (1910) miniatura|Fotograma de The House with Closed Shutters (1910) miniatura|Fotograma de la pel·lícula The Lonedale Operator (1911) miniatura|Mabel Normand a la pel·lícula Her Awakening (1911) miniatura|Les germanes Dorothy i Lillian Gish a la pel·lícula An Unseen Enemy (1912) miniatura|Fotograma de The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) miniatura|Mary Pickford en un fotograma de The New York Hat (1912). miniatura|Lillian Gish a The Mothering Heart (1913) miniatura|Pòster de The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913) miniatura|Blanche Sweet i Henry B. Walthall a Judith of Bethulia (1914) Griffith inicia la seva carrera com actor amb “Rescued from an Eagle's Nest” (1908). Poc després, el director principal de la Biograph, Wallace McCutcheon Sr., es va posar malalt i el responsable de guionatge de la companyia, Lee Dougherty, va recomanar contractar Griffith com a director. La seva primera pel·lícula serà The Adventures of Dollie i a la Biograph hi realitzarà centenars de curtmetratges entre 1908 i 1914.
The Adventures of Dollie The Fight for Freedom The Tavern Keeper's Daughter The Black Viper The Red Man and the Child Deceived Slumming Party The Bandit's Waterloo A Calamitous Elopement The Greaser's Gauntlet The Man and the Woman The Fatal Hour For Love of Gold Balked at the Altar For a Wife's Honor Betrayed by a Handprint Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court The Girl and the Outlaw Behind the Scenes The Red Girl The Heart of O'Yama Where the Breakers Roar A Smoked Husband The Stolen Jewels The Devil The Zulu's Heart Father Gets in the Game Ingomar, the Barbarian The Vaquero's Vow The Planter's Wife Romance of a Jewess The Call of the Wild Concealing a Burglar After Many Years The Pirate's Gold The Taming of the Shrew The Guerrilla The Song of the Shirt The Ingrate A Woman's Way The Clubman and the Tramp Money Mad (1908 film)|Money Mad The Valet's Wife The Feud and the Turkey The Reckoning The Test of Friendship An Awful Moment The Christmas Burglars Mr. Jones at the Ball The Helping Hand The Kentuckian
1909
One Touch of Nature The Maniac Cook Mrs. Jones Entertains The Honor of Thieves Love Finds a Way The Sacrifice A Rural Elopement Those Boys! The Criminal Hypnotist The Fascinating Mrs. Francis Mr. Jones Has a Card Party Those Awful Hats The Welcome Burglar The Cord of Life The Girls and Daddy The Brahma Diamond Edgar Allan Poe A Wreath in Time Tragic Love The Curtain Pole His Ward's Love The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals The Hindoo Dagger The Politician's Love Story The Golden Louis At the Altar The Prussian Spy His Wife's Mother A Fool's Revenge The Wooden Leg The Roue's Heart The Salvation Army Lass The Lure of the Gown I Did It The Voice of the Violin The Deception And a Little Child Shall Lead Them A Burglar's Mistake The Medicine Bottle Jones and His New Neighbors A Drunkard's Reformation Trying to Get Arrested The Road to the Heart Schneider's Anti-Noise Crusade A Rude Hostess The Winning Coat A Sound Sleeper Confidence A Troublesome Satchel Lady Helen's Escapade The Drive for a Life Twin Brothers Lucky Jim Tis an Ill Wind That Blows No Good The Suicide Club The Eavesdropper One Busy Hour The Note in the Shoe Jones and the Lady Book Agent The French Duel A Baby's Shoe The Jilt Resurrection Two Memories Eloping with Auntie The Cricket on the Hearth His Duty Eradicating Aunty What Drink Did The Violin Maker of Cremona A New Trick The Lonely Villa The Son's Return Her First Biscuits The Faded Lilies Was Justice Served? The Peachbasket Hat The Mexican Sweethearts The Way of Man The Necklace The Message The Country Doctor The Cardinal's Conspiracy Tender Hearts The Friend of the Family The Renunciation Sweet and Twenty Jealousy and the Man A Convict's Sacrifice The Slave A Strange Meeting The Mended Lute They Would Elope Mr. Jones' Burglar The Better Way With Her Card Mrs. Jones' Lover o I Want My Hat His Wife's Visitor The Indian Runner's Romance The Seventh Day Oh, Uncle! Pranks The Mills of the Gods The Sealed Room The Little Darling 1776, o The Hessian Renegades Comata, the Sioux Getting Even The Children's Friend The Broken Locket In Old Kentucky A Fair Exchange Leather Stocking Wanted, a Child The Awakening Pippa Passes Fools of Fate The Little Teacher A Change of Heart His Lost Love The Expiation In the Watches of the Night Lines of White on a Sullen Sea What's Your Hurry? The Gibson Goddess Nursing a Viper The Restoration The Light That Came Two Women and a Man A Sweet Revenge A Midnight Adventure The Open Gate The Mountaineer's Honor The Trick That Failed In the Window Recess The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period Through the Breakers The Red Man's View A Corner in Wheat The Test In a Hempen Bag A Trap for Santa Claus In Little Italy To Save Her Soul The Day After Choosing a Husband The Heart of an Outlaw Mamma Bill Sharkey's Last Game
1910 El gener de 1910 la Biograph va enviar Griffith amb una companyia d'actors a Califòrnia per aprofitar el clima i la llum que hi havia allà durant l'hivern, seguint l'exemple de Selig i de la New York Motion Picture Company (Bison) que ja s'hi havien traslladat. En un llogarret anomenat Hollywood rodaria “In Old California” i, per tant, constitueix la primera pel·lícula rodada allà.
The Rocky Road The Dancing Girl of Butte Her Terrible Ordeal On the Reef The Call The Honor of His Family The Last Deal The Cloister's Touch The Woman from Mellon's The Course of True Love The Duke's Plan One Night and Then The Englishman and the Girl His Last Burglary Taming a Husband The Final Settlement The Newlyweds The Thread of Destiny In Old California The Man The Converts Faithful The Twisted Trail Gold Is Not All His Last Dollar The Two Brothers As It Is In Life A Rich Revenge A Romance of the Western Hills Thou Shalt Not The Way of the World The Gold Seekers The Unchanging Sea Love Among the Roses Over Silent Paths Ramona A Knot in the Plot (director disputed) The Impalement In the Season of Buds The Purgation A Child of the Ghetto A Victim of Jealousy In the Border States The Face at the Window The Marked Time-Table A Child's Impulse Muggsy's First Sweetheart A Midnight Cupid What the Daisy Said A Child's Faith A Flash of Light Serious Sixteen As the Bells Rang Out! The Call to Arms Unexpected Help An Arcadian Maid Her Father's Pride The House with Closed Shutters A Salutary Lesson The Usurer The Sorrows of the Unfaithful Wilful Peggy The Modern Prodigal A Summer Idyll Little Angels of Luck A Mohawk's Way In Life's Cycle The Oath and the Man Rose O'Salem-Town Examination Day at School The Iconoclast That Chink at Golden Gulch The Broken Doll The Banker's Daughters The Message of the Violin Two Little Waifs Waiter No. 5 The Fugitive Simple Charity Sunshine Sue The Song of the Wildwood Flute A Plain Song A Child's Stratagem The Golden Supper His Sister-In-Law The Lesson Winning Back His Love
1911
Flaming Arrows The Two Paths When a Man Loves The Italian Barber His Trust His Trust Fulfilled Fate's Turning A Wreath of Orange Blossoms Three Sisters Heart Beats of Long Ago What Shall We Do with Our Old? Fisher Folks The Diamond Star His Daughter The Lily of the Tenements The Heart of a Savage A Decree of Destiny Conscience Was He a Coward? Teaching Dad to Like Her The Lonedale Operator The Spanish Gypsy The Broken Cross The Chief's Daughter Madame Rex A Knight of the Road His Mother's Scarf How She Triumphed The Two Sides In the Days of '49 The New Dress The Crooked Road The White Rose of the Wilds A Romany Tragedy The Smile of a Child Enoch Arden The Primal Call Her Sacrifice Fighting Blood The Thief and the Girl The Jealous Husband Bobby, the Coward The Indian Brothers A Country Cupid The Last Drop of Water Out from the Shadow The Ruling Passion The Sorrowful Example The Blind Princess and the Poet The Rose of Kentucky Swords and Hearts The Stuff Heroes Are Made Of The Old Confectioner's Mistake The Squaw's Love Dan the Dandy The Revenue Man and the Girl Her Awakening The Making of a Man Italian Blood The Unveiling The Adventures of Billy The Long Road Love in the Hills The Battle The Trail of Books Through Darkened Vales The Miser's Heart Sunshine Through the Dark A Woman Scorned The Failure Saved From Himself As in a Looking Glass A Terrible Discovery The Voice of the Child
1912
Grannie The Baby and the Stork A Tale of the Wilderness The Eternal Mother The Old Bookkeeper For His Son A Blot on the 'Scutcheon The Transformation of Mike A Sister's Love Billy's Stratagem The Mender of Nets Under Burning Skies The Sunbeam A Siren of Impulse A String of Pearls The Girl and her Trust Iola's Promise The Root of Evil The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch The Punishment Fate's Interception The Female of the Species Just Like a Woman One Is Business, the Other Crime The Lesser Evil The Old Actor A Lodging for the Night His Lesson When Kings Were the Law A Beast at Bay An Outcast Among Outcasts Home Folks A Temporary Truce Lena and the Geese The Spirit Awakened The School Teacher and the Waif Man's Lust for Gold An Indian Summer Man's Genesis Heaven Avenges The Sands of Dee Black Sheep The Narrow Road A Child's Remorse The Inner Circle A Change of Spirit A Pueblo Romance A Pueblo Legend In the North Woods An Unseen Enemy Blind Love Two Daughters of Eve Friends So Near, yet So Far A Feud in the Kentucky Hills The Chief's Blanket In the Aisles of the Wild The One She Loved The Painted Lady The Musketeers of Pig Alley Heredity Gold and Glitter My Baby The Informer Brutality The New York Hat My Hero The Burglar's Dilemma A Cry for Help The God Within
1913
Three Friends The Telephone Girl and the Lady An Adventure in the Autumn Woods The Tender Hearted Boy A Misappropriated Turkey Brothers Oil and Water Drink's Lure A Chance Deception Love in an Apartment Hotel Broken Ways A Girl's Stratagem The Unwelcome Guest Near to Earth Fate A Welcome Intruder The Sheriff's Baby The Hero of Little Italy The Perfidy of Mary The Little Tease A Misunderstood Boy The Left-Handed Man The Lady and the Mouse If We Only Knew The Wanderer The Stolen Loaf The House of Darkness The Yaqui Cur Just Gold His Mother's Son The Ranchero's Revenge A Timely Interception Death's Marathon The Mothering Heart Her Mother's Oath The Sorrowful Shore The Reformers; o, The Lost Art of Minding One's Business The Enemy's Baby The Mistake The Coming of Angelo Two Men of the Desert The Adopted Brother Madonna of the Storm The Battle at Elderbush Gulch The Conscience of Hassan Bey
1914 miniatura|Fotograma de El naixement d'una nació (1915) miniatura|Fotograma de Intolerance (1916)