Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.

See what’s playing
Way Down East
  • Try 7 Days Free
  • Now Showing
  • MUBI GO
  • Gift MUBI
  • Film Database
  • Notebook
  • Notebook Magazine
  • MUBI Editions
  • SHOP
  • About
  • Ways to Watch
  • Students
  • Jobs
  • Terms & Privacy
7.8
/10
382 Ratings

WAY DOWN EAST

Directed by D.W. Griffith
United States, 1920
Silent, Drama
  • 150150 minutes

Synopsis

Anna Moore, a naive country girl, is tricked into a sham marriage by Lennox Sanderson, a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock. She gets a job with the Bartlett family and their son David ends up falling for her, but Lennox shows up.

Synopsis

Anna Moore, a naive country girl, is tricked into a sham marriage by Lennox Sanderson, a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock. She gets a job with the Bartlett family and their son David ends up falling for her, but Lennox shows up.