A Fool and a Girl (drama) 1907

The Adventures of Dolly (film) 1908

After Many Years [adaptor; from the poem "Enoch Arden" (1864) by Alfred Lord Tennyson] (film) 1908

The Fatal Hour (film) 1908

The Greaser's Gauntlet (film) 1908

The Redman and the Child (film) 1908

The Salvation Army Lass (film) 1908

The Song of the Shirt (film) 1908

A Convict's Sacrifice (film) 1909

A Corner in Wheat [adaptor; from the short story "A Deal in Wheat" (1903) by Frank Norris] (film) 1909

The Drive for Life (film) 1909

A Drunkard's Reformation (film) 1909

The Lonely Villa [with Mack Sennett] (film) 1909

The Voice of the Violin (film) 1909

An Arcadian Maid (film) 1910

His Trust (film) 1910

The Newlyweds (film) 1910

Ramona [adaptor; from the novel Ramona (1884) by Helen Hunt Jackson] (film) 1910

A Summer Idyll (film) 1910

The Battle (film) 1911,

Enoch Arden [adaptor; from the poem "Enoch Arden" (1864) by Alfred Lord Tennyson] (film) 1911

The Last Drop of Water (film) 1911

The Lonedale Operator [with Sennett] (film) 1911

Swords and Hearts (film) 1911

The Girl and Her Trust (film) 1912

His Lesson (film) 1912

The Massacre (film) 1912

The Musketeers of Pig Alley (film) 1912

The New York Hat [with Anita Loos] (film) 1912

The Sands of Dee (film) 1912

The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (film) 1913

†Judith of Bethulia (film) 1913

The Mothering Heart (film) 1913

The Reformers, or The Lost Art of Minding One's Business (film) 1913

‡The Avenging Conscience [adaptor; from the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) and other works by Edgar Allan Poe] (film) 1914

The Battle of the Sexes (film) 1914

The Escape (film) 1914

Home, Sweet Home (film) 1914

The Birth of a Nation [with Frank Woods; based on the novel The Clansman (1905) and on its 1906 dramatic adaptation, both by Thomas Dixon] (film) 1915

The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America (essay) 1915

Intolerance (film) 1916

The Great Love [with Stanner E. V. Taylor] (film) 1918

The Greatest Thing in Life [with Taylor] (film) 1918

Hearts of the World (film) 1918

Broken Blossoms [adaptor; from the short story "The Chink and the Child" by Thomas Burke] (film) 1919

The Girl Who Stayed at Home [with Taylor] (film) 1919

The Greatest Question [with Taylor] (film) 1919

A Romance of Happy Valley (film) 1919

Scarlet Days [with Taylor] (film) 1919

True Heart Susie [with Marion Fremont] (film) 1919

The Idol Dancer [with Taylor] (film) 1920

The Love Flower [adaptor; from the short story "The Black Beach" by Ralph Stock] (film) 1920

Way Down East [with Anthony Paul Kelly; based on the play by Lottie Blair Parker] (film) 1920

Dream Street [adaptor; from the short stories "Gina of the Chinatown" and "The Sign of the Lamp" by Burke] (film) 1921

Orphans of the Storm [adaptor; from the play The Two Orphans by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugene Cormon] (film) 1921

One Exciting Night (film) 1922

The White Rose (film) 1923

America [with Robert W. Chambers; based on Chambers's novel The Reckoning] (film) 1924

Isn't Life Wonderful [adaptor; from the short story by Geoffrey Moss] (film) 1924

Sally of the Sawdust [with Forrest Halsey; based on the musical play Poppy by Dorothy Donnelly] (film) 1925

That Royle Girl [with Paul Schofield; based on the novel by Edwin Balmer] (film) 1925

The Sorrows of Satan [with Halsey, John Russell, and George Hull; based on the novel The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experiences of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire: A Romance (1895) by Marie Corelli] (film) 1926

The Battle of the Sexes [with Gerrit J. Lloyd; based on the novel The Single Standard by Daniel Carson Goodman] (film) 1928

Drums of Love [with Lloyd] (film) 1928

Lady of the Pavements [with Sam Taylor; based on the short story by Karl Volmöller] (film) 1929

Abraham Lincoln [with Lloyd and Stephen Vincent Benét] (film) 1930

The Struggle [with Loos and John Emerson] (film) 1931

§The Man Who Invented Hollywood: The Autobiography of D. W. Griffith (autobiography) 1972

*Because Griffith directed over 480 short one- and two-reel films for the Biograph Company between 1908 and 1913, the above list includes only some of the more notable titles from those years. All of the films he made after leaving Biograph are included. Bracketed information following a title refers to screenwriting ("scenario" writing) credit and/or to the literary source of the film.

†This is Griffith's first feature-length film, with a running time of approximately one hour. Released at the beginning of 1914, it was his last film for the Biograph Company.

‡Griffith's films from 1914 and after are all five reels or longer. The Avenging Conscience is six reels, or approximately an hour and a half in running time. Intolerance, his longest film, is fourteen reels, or nearly three hours long.

§Griffith's autobiography was compiled and edited by James Hart.