Director
1875 - 1948
D.W. Griffith
LaGrange, Kentucky, USA
David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance (1916). Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made... Read full bio →
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San Francisco
W.S. Van Dyke
1936
1h 55m
8.0
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the big earthquake.
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
J. Searle Dawley
1908
7m
5.0
A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies away with it.
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