Other Titles • Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages • Intolerance • The Mother and the Law • Intolerance: A Sun-Play of the Ages • Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
Trivia from Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
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Among the dancers in the Babylonian sequence was the young Martha Graham, performing at the time with modern dance choreographer Ruth St. Denis's company.
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As was the case with THE BIRTH OF A NATION, Griffith continued to tinker with the finished product during the following years, cutting out scenes and re-editing. But in 1989, Gillian B. Anderson and Peter Williamson created a reconstructed version using all available footage as well as still photographs to substitute for missing sequences; this restoration gave a better sense of what the original print might have been like. This version was shown at the New York Film Festival on October 29, 1989.
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Theatrical release: September 5, 1916.
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INTOLERANCE was an original selection to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1989.
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INTOLERANCE was released two years after THE BIRTH OF A NATION, and is widely regarded as director D.W. Griffith's protest and self-defense against the charges of racism leveled at him for BIRTH's glorification of the Ku Klux Klan.
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The film was very costly and not terribly successful at the time; Griffith chose to reedit the individual stories into shorts and also release them separately.
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