History Film / Intolerance

''Intolerance'' is a 1916 silent film, directed by [[Creator/DWGriffith D.W. Griffith]], with four stories about mankind's intolerance. Each story takes place in a separate time and place in world history. Rather than being told sequentially, the film constantly cuts from one story to another, establishing moral and psychological links between all of them -- effectively telling all four stories in parallel.

** The Pharisees from the Judean Story can also qualify, since they're praying to demand that , God bring mercy on them, even though their actions led to the Crucifixion of Jesus.

* KarmaHoudini: None of the bad guys--Jenkins, the Uplifters, the treacherous Babylonian priest, King Charles IX, Catherine de Medici, the Pharisees--get any kind of comeuppance. Catherine is seen striding through the corpse-strewn streets with a look of satisfaction on her face.

* WeddingEpisode: The Jesus story takes up less than 20 minutes of a film that's almost three hours long, depending on which version and which projection speed, but one of the scenes that it includes is the wedding at Cana. Griffith reminds viewers that Jesus's first miracle was turning water into wine to keep a party going.

* KilledOffscreen: We never get to see [[spoiler:The Dear One's father die]]

* WeddingDay: The Jesus story takes up less than 20 minutes of a film that's almost three hours long, depending on which version and which projection speed, but one of the scenes that it includes is the wedding at Cana. Griffith reminds viewers that Jesus's first miracle was turning water into wine to keep a party going.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. When the soldiers enter Brown Eyes' house, one has the little baby by one arm and one leg, apparently about to tear it in half. Mercifully, Griffith cuts away rather than showing this onscreen.

It was made in direct response to Griffith's previous film, ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|1915}}''. Some stories hold that Griffith was TheAtoner after the backlash to that horrifically racist film. The truth, however, is that Griffith thought the outrage against his MagnumOpus had been an example of Main/PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad, and felt the "intolerance" had been directed at ''him''. Regardless of what sparked its creation, this film itself is not specifically about race relations.

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** Due to this film's public domain status, there are several different versions available on home video or the internet. The early 1990s Image Entertainment DVD, now out of print, included a DeletedScene in which the Dear One and the Boy are reunited with their baby.

* FollowThatCab: Well, it's a silent movie, but the Friendless One grabs a cabbie's attention and points at another cab that is trundling away with the Dear One and the Kindly Officer inside.

* TheCavalry: In the modern story does The Cavalry arrive on time, saving The Boy from the gallows-but see TheCavalryArrivesLate.

It was made in direct response to Griffith's previous film, ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|1915}}''. Some stories hold that Griffith was TheAtoner after the backlash to that horrifically racist film. The truth, however, is that Griffith thought the outrage against his MagnumOpus had been an example of Main/PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad, and felt the "intolerance" had been directed at ''him''. Regardless of what sparked its creation, the film itself is not specifically about race relations.

It was made in direct response to Griffith's previous film, ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|1915}}''. Some stories hold that Griffith was TheAtoner after the backlash to that horrifically racist film. The truth, however, is that Griffith thought the outrage against his MagnumOpus was an example of Main/PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad, and felt the "intolerance" had been directed at ''him''. Regardless of what sparked its creation, the film itself is not specifically about race relations.

It was made in direct response to Griffith's previous film, ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|1915}}''. Some stories hold that Griffith was TheAtoner after the backlash to that horrifically racist film. The truth, however, is that Griffith thought the outrage was an example of Main/PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad, and felt the "intolerance" had been directed at ''him''. Regardless of what sparked its creation, the film itself is not specifically about race relations.

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It was made in direct response to D.W. Griffith's previous film, ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|1915}}''. Some stories hold that Griffith was TheAtoner after the backlash to that horrifically racist film. The truth, however, is that Griffith thought the outrage was an example of Main/PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad, and felt the "intolerance" had been directed at him. Regardless of what sparked its creation, the film itself is not specifically about race relations.

* "The Crucifixion of Jesus", 27 AD, starring Howard Gaye as {{Jesus}}.

* FollowTheLeader: The Fall of Babylon story, especially in set design and overall look, bears an obvious debt to 1914 Italian AncientRome EpicMovie ''Film/{{Cabiria}}''.