Picture “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” Now, picture the complete opposite. For a generation raised on special effects and computer-generated imagery, the silent film era seems almost more ...

Well, there are more — and nobler — reasons to watch D.W. Griffith's three-hour-plus, centuries-spanning 1916 epic "Intolerance." But the aforementioned accoutrements underscore just how modern this ...

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, ...

A Sun-play of the Ages, Intolerance tells four tales, all widely separated in time, yet each loosely connected to the others by the title's theme: the Babylonian Story, the Christ Story, the Huguenot ...

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Cinema pioneer D.W. Griffith pushed for feature-length films when the rest of the fledgling industry was content to make shorts. His 1915 silent film "Birth of a Nation" was enormously profitable ...

Best extra: “Three Hours That Shook the World: Observations on ‘Intolerance,'” a too-short interview (in HD) with the esteemed film historian and preservationist Kevin Brownlow ADD “INTOLERANCE” to ...