D.W. Griffith

David Wark Griffith (1875 - 1948) was an American film director. Widely considered as the most important filmmaker of his generation, he pioneered financing of the feature-length movie.

His film The Birth of a Nation (1915) made investors a profit, but also attracted much controversy, as it depicted African Americans in a negative light and glorified the Ku Klux Klan. Intolerance (1916) was made as an answer to his critics, but not as an apology for the negative images of African Americans in film. Several of Griffith's later films were also successful, including Broken Blossoms (1919), Way Down East (1920), and Orphans of the Storm (1921), but the high costs he incurred for production and promotion often led to commercial failure. He had made roughly 500 films by the time of his final feature, The Struggle (1931).

Together with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks he founded United Artists, enabling them to control their own interests, rather than depending on commercia…more

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	The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm by Juliet Nicolson (Goodreads Author) 3.66 avg rating — 1,556 ratings — published 2006 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	D.W. Griffith: An American Life by Richard Schickel 3.99 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1984 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time by Melvyn Stokes 3.82 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2007 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adventures with D.W. Griffith by Karl Brown 4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1973 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Film: An International History of the Medium by Robert Sklar 4.06 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1993 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph by Tom Gunning 4.12 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1991 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Realism and the Cinema: A Reader by Christopher Williams (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1980 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man who Invented Hollywood: The Autobiography of D.W. Griffith by James Hart (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1972 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thinking in Pictures: Dramatic Structure in D.W. Griffith's Biograph Films by Joyce E. Jesionowski 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1987 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars