Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages is a 1916 historical drama silent film directed by D.W. Griffith. It tells four stories across history, from ancient Babylon to early 1900s America, ...
Everything about cinema’s first blockbuster, “The Birth of a Nation” (1915), seemed new: its three-hour running time, complex narrative, large cast of characters, and its powerful emotional effect on ...
D.W. Griffith released a silent epic that intercut four stories across centuries to argue against humanity’s capacity for ...
After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, ...
The Babylonian sets constructed in Hollywood for David W Griffiths 1916 film Intolerance immediately became part of cinematic folklore They were over 40 metres high 60 metres wide and 120 metres in ...