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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Casts & Crew
Lillian Gish
Mae Marsh
Robert Harron
F.A. Turner
Sam De Grasse
Vera Lewis
Lillian Langdon
Olga Grey
Erich von Ritzau
Bessie Love
Margery Wilson
Eugene Pallette
Spottiswoode Aitken
Ruth Handforth
Elmer Clifton
Seena Owen
Carl Stockdale
Mary Alden
Pearl Elmore
Julia Mackley
Miriam Cooper
Walter Long
Tom Wilson
Ralph Lewis
Lloyd Ingraham
John P. McCarthy
Monte Blue
Marguerite Marsh
Edward Dillon
Billy Quirk
Howard Gaye
William H. Brown
George Walsh
W.S. Van Dyke
Allan Sears
Frank Bennett
Maxfield Stanley
Josephine Crowell
Constance Talmadge
W.E. Lawrence
Joseph Henabery
Chandler House
Alfred Paget
Tully Marshall
Dore Davidson
Taylor N. Duncan
Owen Moore
Frank Borzage
Karl Brown
Frank Campeau
Constance Collier
Donald Crisp
Nigel De Brulier
Clarence Geldart
Dell Henderson
Russell Hicks
DeWolf Hopper Sr.
Wilfred Lucas
Francis McDonald
Vester Pegg
Herbert Sutch
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
King Vidor
Hal Wilson
Tammany Young
Sylvia Ashton
Jennie Lee
George Beranger
Kitty Bradbury
Tod Browning
Frank Brownlee
Kate Bruce
Edward Burns
Noble Johnson
George Fawcett
Jewel Carmen
Carol Dempster
Mildred Harris
Daisy Jefferson
Carmel Myers
Eve Southern
Pauline Starke
Natalie Talmadge
Ethel Grey Terry
Francis Carpenter
Virginia Lee Corbin
Peggy Cartwright
Gino Corrado
William Courtright
Erich von Stroheim
Max Davidson
Douglas Fairbanks
Julia Faye
Clyde E. Hopkins
Alberta Lee
Elmo Lincoln
Loyola O'Connor
Wallace Reid
Alma Rubens
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
George Siegmann
Raymond Wells
Winifred Westover
David Butler
Also Directed by D. W. Griffith
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and takes up with another woman. His wife leaves him, returning to her mother's home where she bears a child. When the husband is abandoned by his concubine, remorse drives him to find his wife.
A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.
A man and three women leave an abandoned mining town travel across the desert. After the man's death, his wife plans revenge against her companion, whom the wife suspects had an affair with her deceased husband.
A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.
An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing entourage chasing him, until he escapes them through a bit of movie magic, only to discover that the pole has already been replaced.
An anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler with a 'sure thing' borrows the coin and wins a fortune, but he can't find her again to repay her.
An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one young Indian woman stay behind. This woman is thus separated from her sweetheart, whose elderly father needs his help on the journey ahead
Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other is poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a home, only to be captured a gunpoint by the mistress of the house. It is the home of the rich couple. While holding the poor intruder at gunpoint, the rich wife accidently discovers evidence implicating her own husband in a bribery scheme . . .