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ABRAHAM LINCOLN/ THE STRUGGLE
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Released as part of the Griffith Masterworks 2 collection, this            double-feature includes the newly-restored Abraham Lincoln (USA, 1930,     93 mins.), D.W. Griffith's epic biography of Lincoln, featuring a remarkable     performance from Walter Huston as the martyred president. This is followed by  The Struggle (USA, 1931, 93 mins.), and Griffith pulls no punches in     this rarely seen last film, which illustrates the destructive influence of     alcohol. In this talkie, Hal Skelly stars as a hardworking everyman who fall  s  victim to alcoholism and makes his home a living hell for his trusting         D.W. Griffith---USA---1930/1931---186 mins.
AMERICA (1924)
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Griffith's patriotic, historical spectacle about the American Revolution, with Neil Hamilton and the showy villainy of Lionel Barrymore as a British Loyalist.
AVENGING CONSCIENCE EDGAR POE
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Released as part of the Griffith Masterworks 2 collection, this DVD        includes two newly-restored D.W. Griffith films inspired by the works of Edgar   Allan Poe. The Avenging Conscience (USA, 1914, 84 mins.) was Griffith's    first elaborate feature, notable for its use of double exposures and masks     which would later influence the German Expressionist movement. With Henry B.   Walthall, Blanche Sweet. Silent with new music score by Martin Marks. This is  joined by Edgar Allen Poe (USA, 1909, 7 mins.), a one-reel biographica  l  short, with Herbert Yost as the troubled poet. Silent with music by Ben Model. D.W. Griffith---USA---1914/1909---91 mins.
BATTLE OF THE SEXES (1928)
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Remaking his own 1913 film, D.W. Griffith allowed the influence of the Jazz      Age to alter his usually Victorian sensibility. This fast-paced dramatic         comedy concerns a sexy young flapper who sets her sights on a married man. As    he becomes preoccupied with his new mistress, his daughter begins to fall for  a suave and merciless gigolo. A rather risque effort for the great American    film pioneer and one of the better films from the twilight of his career.      D.W. Griffith---USA---1928---88 mins.
BIOGRAPH SHORTS: GRIFFITH
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It was during his five years as a director at Biograph that D.W. Griffith quickly mastered the filmmaking process and essentially set the standard for narrative film form. This disc includes 23 historic Griffith shorts, including eight films not available on the two VHS volumes. 1908: The Adventures of Dollie. 1909: Those Awful Hats, The Sealed Room, A Corner in Wheat.   1910: The Unchanging Sea, The Usurer. 1911: His Trust, Enoch Arden,  The Miser's Heart, The Last Drop of Water. 1912: The New York Hat, An Unseen Enemy, The Musketeers of Pig Alley, The Burglar's Dilemma, The Sunbeam, The Painted Lady, One is Business, the Other Crime, Friends, The Lesser Evil, The Massacre. 1913: The Mothering Heart, Death's Marathon, The Battle at Elderbush Gulch. Silent with music score.                                     D.W. Griffith---USA---1908-1913---362 mins.
BIRTH OF A NATION (IMAGE)
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A landmark achievement and still one of the most controversial films ever        made, D.W. Griffith's debut feature revolutionized the form and content of the   cinema. It is an epic story of two families, one northern, one southern,         during and after the Civil War. The heroic portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan and   other racist elements remain hurtful, but the film's historic importance       cannot be questioned.  This edition includes a 30-minute documentary on the    making of the film, with interviews, archival footage and outtakes. Adapted      from Thomas Dixon's novel and play The Clansman. With Lillian Gish, Mae  Marsh, Miriam Cooper and filmmaker Raoul Walsh as John Wilkes Booth.           D.W. Griffith---USA---1915---187 mins.
BIRTH OF A NATION (KINO)
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A landmark achievement and still one of the most controversial films ever made, D.W. Griffith's debut feature revolutionized the form and content of the cinema. It is an epic story of two families, one northern, one southern, during and after the Civil War. The heroic portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan and other racist elements remain hurtful, but the film's historic importance cannot be questioned. This edition includes a 30-minute documentary on the making of the film, with interviews, archival footage and outtakes. Adapted from Thomas Dixon's novel and play The Clansman. With Lillian Gish, Mae  Marsh, Miriam Cooper and filmmaker Raoul Walsh as John Wilkes Booth.           D.W. Griffith---USA---1915---187 mins.
BROKEN BLOSSOMS (DELUXE EDITION)
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In D.W. Griffith's pastoral effort set in a Dickensian London, Lillian Gish plays a frail young street urchin desperate to escape her tyrannical and abusive father.
D.W. GRIFFITH DIRECTOR V1
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Witness the true dawn of American narrative film through these 11 shorts         directed by D.W. Griffith during his first two years at Biograph, including      his very first directorial effort, The Adventures of Dollie (1908). Also   on this volume: A Calamitous Elopement (1908), Balked at the Altar (1908), Betrayed by a Handprint (1908), Father Gets into the Game  (1908), Romance of a Jewess (1908), Song of the Shirt (1908),      Money Mad (1908), Those Awful Hats (1909), The Cord of   Life  (1909), and The Curtain Pole (1909). Silent with musical accompaniment.  D.W. Griffith---USA---1908-1909---102 mins.
D.W. GRIFFITH DIRECTOR V2
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Another collection of Biograph shorts directed from the architect of American    film. The foundations of narrative cinema were established with these historic   films: The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals, A Politician's Love        Story, The Golden Louis, At the Altar, Lure of the Gown,  Voice of the Violin, A Drunkard's Reformation, Confidence,   Lucky Jim, Resurrection, Cricket on the Hearth and What   Drink Did. All 12 films were released in 1909 and several star f  ilm pioneer Mack Sennett. Silent with music score by Jack Hardy.                           D.W. Griffith---USA---1909---112 mins.
D.W. GRIFFITH DIRECTOR V3
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This volume contains 10 more Biograph shorts directed by Griffith as he was      establishing himself as the preeminent filmmaker of early cinema. All these      films were released in 1909, a year in which the phenomenally prolific           Griffith made nearly 150 one-reel movies.  All these shorts also feature Mary  Pickford in the cast. 1909 was Pickford's first full year in the movies, and   she was already fast on her way to superstardom. Film comedy pioneer Mack      Sennett also stars in several of these films. Includes The Violin Maker of    Cremona, The Lonely Villa, The Son's Return, Her First       Biscuits, The Way of Man, The Country Doctor, The Cardinal's Conspiracy, Renunication, A Strange Meeting and The Broken   Locket. Silent with musical scores by Jack Hardy.                             D.W. Griffith---USA---1909---112 mins.
D.W. GRIFFITH DIRECTOR V4
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Eleven more silent shorts directed by Griffith during his second year at         Biograph, one of the most prolific periods in his stunningly productive          career. Mary Pickford and Mack Sennett are featured in many of these landmark    shorts, all of which were shot by legendary, pioneering cinematographer Billy  Bitzer and released in 1909. Includes Little Darling, The Sealed      Room (based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado), 1776 (a.k.a. The Hessian Renegades), Getting Even, The Awakenin  g  (scripted by Pickford), Pippa Passes (based on a Robert Browning poem),  Fools of Fate, Lines of White on a Sullen Sea, The Gibson       Goddess, A Corner in Wheat, and The Light That Came. Silent     D.W. Griffith---USA---1909---114 mins.
D.W. GRIFFITH: FATHER OF FILM
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A splendid, three-part biography of the most important figure in early           American cinema, from renowned film historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill     (Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius, Cinema Europe). Included are rar  e clips and interviews with collaborators and fellow filmmakers such as Lillian  Gish, Hal Roach and Richard Brooks. Originally presented on television's       American Masters.                                                        Kevin Brownlow/Davil Gill---Great Britain---1993---155 mins.
D.W. GRIFFITH: YEARS OF DISCOV
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Twenty-two landmark films from D.W. Griffith are included in this special        collection focusing on an incredibly prolific period in which the movie          pioneer made some 450 films for Biograph. The films have been speed corrected,   with all but two featuring new scores. Includes The Redman's View, In the Border States, What Shall We Do With Our Old?, For His Son, The Female of the Species, The House of Darkness, The           Musketeers of Pig Alley, The Burglar's Dilemma, The Sunbeam  ,    The Painted Lady, One is Business, the Other Crime, Death's     Marathon, The Battle at Elderbush Gulch, The Awful Hats, The Sealed Room, A Corner in Wheat, The Unchanging Sea, His      Trust, The New York Hat, An Unseen Enemy, The Mothering      D.W. Griffith---USA---1909-13---334 mins.
DREAM STREET
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A follow-up to Broken Blossoms, based on material by the same author,      featuring Tyrone Power Sr., Ralph Graves and Carol Dempster. A story of two      brothers, both in love with the same dancing girl, while a gambler plans to      take her for his own.                                                          D.W. Griffith---USA---1921---102 mins.
GRIFFITH MASTERWORKS
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This seven-disc set is the single most comprehensive collection devoted to the works of the genius who virtually invented American cinema, D.W. Griffith.
GRIFFITH MASTERWORKS 2
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This five-disc set assembles five all-new feature restorations mastered in       high-definition as part of the second round of Griffith Masterworks        releases. Includes: Abraham Lincoln (USA, 1930, 93 mins.), The          Struggle (USA, 1931, 93 mins.), Sally of the Sawdust (USA, 1925, 113  mins.), The Avenging Conscience (USA, 1914, 84 mins.), Edgar Allen    Poe (USA, 1909, 7 mins.), Way Down East (USA, 1920, 149 mins.), and   the three-part documentary, D.W. Griffith: Father of Film (Kevin           Brownlow/David Gill, Great Britain, 1993, 155 mins.). The set also contains    many rare archival materials and bonus features.                               D.W. Griffith/Kevin Brownlow/Davil Gill---USA/Great Britain---1909-1993---695 mins.
IDOL DANCER
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A drunken Yankee beachcomber befriends a half-caste native girl scorned by the   villagers in this Griffith epic set in the South Seas. Richard Barthelmess,      Claire Seymour and Creighton Hale star in the film, which ends in a rousing      climax. Silent with music track.                                               D.W. Griffith---USA---1920---104 mins.
INTOLERANCE (KINO)
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Four separate stories are interwoven: the fall of Babylon, the death of Christ, the massacre of the Huguenots, and a modern drama--all cross-cut and building with enormous energy to a thrilling chase and finale. Far ahead of its time, Griffith created a spectacle which audiences of the day did not accept but which has become a classic of world cinema. Intolerance has been remastered using variable speed projection and color tints to match the original release prints, making it the best version available anywhere. Tinted   D.W. Griffith---USA---1919---197 min.
LOVE FLOWER, THE
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One of three pictures Griffith shot for First National, a melodrama about a      man who, with his daughter, escapes to a tropical island to elude a police       detective. Shot on location in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and in the Bahamas.     D.W. Griffith---USA---1920---95 mins.