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Release Date: 2012

Cast: Miriam Cooper, Seena Owen, Walter Long, Elmer Clifton, Mae Marsh, Margery Wilson, King Vidor, Jewel Carmen, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Constance Talmadge, Douglas Fairbanks, Josephine Crowell ...MORE

Cast: Miriam Cooper, Seena Owen, Walter Long, Elmer Clifton, Mae Marsh, Margery Wilson, King Vidor, Jewel Carmen, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Constance Talmadge, Douglas Fairbanks, Josephine Crowell, Tully Marshall, Bessie Love, Gino Corrado, Robert Harron, Lillian Gish, Alfred Paget, Spottiswoode Aitken ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Black-And-White, Epic, Indie, Silent Film, Drama Film, Historical Epic, Melodrama

Intolerance is a 1916 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and is considered one of the great masterpieces of the Silent Era. The three-and-a-half hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines each separated by several centuries: (1) A contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; (2) a Judean story: Christ’s mission and death; (3) a French story: the events surrounding the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572; and (4) a Babylonian story: the fall of the Babylonian Empire to Persia in 539 BC. Intolerance was made partly in response to criticism of Griffith's previous film,... MORE

Intolerance is a 1916 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and is considered one of the great masterpieces of the Silent Era. The three-and-a-half hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines each separated by several centuries: (1) A contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; (2) a Judean story: Christ’s mission and death; (3) a French story: the events surrounding the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572; and (4) a Babylonian story: the fall of the Babylonian Empire to Persia in 539 BC. Intolerance was made partly in response to criticism of Griffith's previous film, The Birth of a Nation (1915), which was attacked by the NAACP and other groups as perpetuating racial stereotypes and glorifying the Ku Klux Klan. This complex film consists of four distinct, but parallel, stories—intercut with increasing frequency as the film builds to a climax—that demonstrate mankind's persistent intolerance throughout the ages. The film sets up moral and psychological connections among the different stories. The timeline covers approximately 2,500 years: Breaks between the differing time-periods are marked by the symbolic image of a mother rocking a cradle, representing the LESS