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Griffith Masterworks
(1908-1921)

Contents: The Adventures of Dollie (1908), Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908), Corner in Wheat (1909), The Sealed Room (1909), Those Awful Hats (1909), The Fugitive (1910), The House with Closed Shutters (1910), In the Border States (1910), The Unchanging Sea (1910), The Usurer (1910), The Battle (1911), Enoch Arden (1911), His Trust (1911), His Trust Fulfilled (1911), The Last Drop of Water (1911), The Miser’s Heart (1911), Swords and Hearts (1911), The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912), Friends (1912), The Lesser Evil (1912), The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), The New York Hat (1912), One is Business, The Other Crime (1912), The Painted Lady (1912), The Sunbeam (1912), An Unseen Enemy (1912), Death’s Marathon (1913), The Mothering Heart (1913), The Massacre (1914), The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1914), The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), Broken Blossoms (1919) and Orphans of the Storm (1921).

2002 Kino International edition

Griffith Masterworks (1908-1921),
color-toned black & white and black & white, 986 minutes total, not rated,
including Grffith Masterworks: Biograph Shorts (1908-1914), black & white, 362 minutes, not rated, The Birth of a Nation (1915), color-toned black & white, 187 minutes, not rated, Intolerance (1916), color-toned black & white, 197 minutes, not rated, Broken Blossoms (1919), color-toned black & white, 90 minutes, not rated, and Orphans of the Storm (1921), color-toned black & white, 150 minutes, not rated.

Kino International, no catalog number, UPC 7-38329-02702-5.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, seven single-sided, single-layered and dual-layered DVD discs, Region 1, 4.5 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $99.95.
DVD release date: 10 December 2002.
Country of origin: USA

We have viewed many of the films from this 2002 Kino boxset. We have confirmed that this edition of Broken Blossoms is virtually identical to the 2001 edition reviewed here.

An obvious attraction of this boxset is the additional content in the form of supplemental materials, and the compilation of early Griffith Biograph short films. For reviews and notes on the discs, see our individual pages on these films on DVD home video: Biograph Shorts, The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Broken Blossoms and Orphans of the Storm.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.

Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other D.W. GRIFFITH films available on home video.

Other silent era Lillian Gish films available on home video:
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1914)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Intolerance (1916)
Orphans of the Storm (1920)
Romola (1924)
True Heart Susie (1919)
Way Down East (1920)
The White Sister (1923)

Collections and boxsets that include silent era Lillian Gish films:
Biograph Shorts (1909-1913)
D.W. Griffith, Years of Discovery (1909-1913)

Other silent era Richard Barthelmess films available on home video:
The Drop Kick (1927)
The Love Flower (1920)
Snow White (1916)
Tol’able David (1921)
Way Down East (1920)

Collections and boxsets that contain silent era SHORT DRAMA films.

Lillian Gish filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List

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